Quotes About Technology

From 2,272 text messages a month in 2008, American teenagers (ages 13–17) ballooned to 3,339 messages a month in 2010, an average of six per waking hour. Simply put, students in one of the most formative periods of their intellectual and emotional lives are interrupted 118 times a day for messages, totaling 90 minutes.

Lesbians discussed the dehumanizing aspect of American technology, in French.

Every word uttered at the Center is preserved on tape, and not only colleges and libraries but thousands of individuals receive Center tapes and pamphlets. Among the best-selling pamphlets have been A. A. Berle, Jr.'s Economic Power and the Free Society, Clark Kerr's Unions and Union Leaders of Their Own Choosing, Donald Michael's Cybernation: The Silent Conquest, and Harrison Brown's Community of Fear.

In the popular imagination, the American motion-picture industry still represents a kind of mechanical monster, programmed to stifle and destroy all that is interesting and worthwhile and "creative" in the human spirit.

And how could the Internet bring him to her, if he wasn't showing up on his own two feet?

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.