Quotes About Technology

A German immigrant named Emile Berliner started to carve songs into seven-inch wax disks, and to make as many copies as needed from a single master recording, while the two biggest companies in the business—Edison and Columbia—raced each other to improve fidelity and to drive prices down enough to make the phonograph a middle-class vanity toy.

Many studies revealed startling truths about technology, such as that routine use of electronic fetal monitoring on every birthing woman does not lower the perinatal mortality rate, but sharply increases the rate of C-sections.

Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day

Charles Goodyear had patented the first rubber condom in 1844, and by the 1870s, there was such widespread use of intrauterine devices and diaphragms that the number of women dying in childbirth had dropped by 30 percent in twenty-five years.

Narcotized by technology, we sacrifice long-term purpose and fulfillment for the short-term dopamine-driven feedback loops created by Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. This is not healthy. As with the pace of change, I don't see a horizon where this societal problem slows down because a majority of us suddenly stop using social media's irresistible tools. Only we can control how profoundly we allow vicarious living to infect our life, one individual at a time.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV…. Hot media are… low in participation, and cool media are high in participation or completion by the audience.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.