Quotes About Technology

meant working-class kids like Stan no longer spent their childhoods whacking a tennis ball but hunched over tiny screens. Logan's point was: Don't you dare think I grew up rich and privileged just because this bush neighbourhood got all posh and gentrified.

She couldn't shake the feeling that if she didn't record this moment on her phone then it wasn't really happening, it didn't count

Her darling little tech-savvy, consumerist savages.

I can't be in the same room as you right now." She hopped out of bed, taking the iPad with her. "Be ridiculous, then," said Ed.

The younger man sitting next to her, her son perhaps, who looked to be in his forties, had a bar code tattooed on the back of his tanned neck, as if he were a supermarket product.

Computers and other electrical equipment seemed to shrink when Michael was around, becoming malleable and obedient in his large hands. It was a pity he couldn't do the same with every problem. Tap a few keys, frown in an interested way. "Mmmm, let's give this a go, then," and hey presto, confidence about the functionality of your personality rebooted and restored.

The teenagers glanced up briefly from their phones and then instantly dropped their heads again as if there were magnets on their foreheads.

If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future.

We should Google it. Don't sneer at me.

She literally felt twitchy without her phone.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

My gun go crazy like its retarded. Red light on its like its recording.

Love is like a Chinese mobile, comes with no guarantee.

Muldoon referred to an invention that Menlo Parker was currently working on, designing a miniaturized portable radio-telephone which the Omega operatives could carry on their person at all times, and by which they could always get in touch with one another, and also tap into the public phone lines to contact the police, fire department, or ambulance. The invention was by no means yet perfected.

Military-grade laser," Conti said. "Very powerful, yet more precise than a jeweler's file.

And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections, buttressed by an arsenal of hidden technology.

Without a physical presence on the shelves, the Kindle books seemed slightly insubstantial. There was no equivalent of the satisfying cracked spine. There was nothing to bequeath to the next generation, nothing to sell on to live a new life in someone else's library. But at least the torrent of books that kept arriving had slowed down and there was space to walk up the stairs. I was being freed from the burden of all those bloody books.

The idea that I was building a library to bequeath to the next generation is one of the greatest fallacies of my life. The next generation don't want old books – they don't seem to want books at all.

The relationship with my library on a Kindle feels more intimate, like a shelled animal carrying its home on its back.

Well that's a system too but you don't think about it very much because of how flawlessly it works for you.