Quotes About Technology

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

We were the first generation to have, in our own homes, the means to re- and forward-wind reality: even very small children could press their fingers against those clunky buttons and see what-has-been become what-is or what-will-be.

il tutto in diverse sfumature di grigio, celeste, verde scuro, perché in base a una ricerca, questi sono i colori che la gente associa a scienza e tecnologia (il viola e il rosso evocano le arti, l'azzurro scuro sta a significare qualità e/o merci scelte)...

My phone buzzed so frequently it seemed to have an animal life of its own.

Most e-mails sent in the mid-nineties tended to be long and letter-like: they began and ended with traditional greetings—the ones we'd all previously used on paper—and they were keen to describe the surrounding scene, as if the new medium had made of everybody a writer. ("I'm typing this just by the window, looking out to blue-gray sea, where three gulls are diving into the water.")

software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible.

I thought of that William Gibson quote: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed yet.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.

Elsewhere in London, offices are open plan/floor to ceiling glass/sites of synergy/wireless/gleaming. There persists a belief in the importance of a ping-pong table.

But here I fear I am becoming nostalgic. I am dreaming of a Web that caters to a kind of person who no longer exists. A private person, a person who is a mystery, to the world and—which is more important—to herself. Person as mystery: this idea of personhood is certainly changing, perhaps has already changed. Because I find I agree with Zuckerberg: selves evolve.

Then again, the more time I spend with the tail end of Generation Facebook (in the shape of my students) the more convinced I become that some of the software currently shaping their generation is unworthy of them. They are more interesting than it is. They deserve better.

Actually creating an animal just so it can die -- it's like being God! I mean personally I'm a Hindu, yeah? I'm not religious or nothing, but you know, I believe in the sanctity of life, yeah? And these people, like, program the mouse, plot its every move, yeah, when it's going to have kids, when it's going to die. It's just unnatural .

our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned.

In today's globalized and interconnected world, it is foolish to imagine that anything can be studied in isolation.

we spend one-third of our lives immersed in the media. Our abilities to speak, think, form relationships with others, even our dreams and our own sense of identity are now shaped by the media. So, studying the media is studying ourselves as social creatures.

I am a news junkie and I can't remember a time when I haven't read a paper or even when I am abroad, watched the news on a TV or your phone.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

There's a lot of potential for machine learning all around the world. We're seeing it in academia, at other companies, in government.

Everything's so accelerated now.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I like most any place if I have Internet access.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.