Quotes About Technology

You were born without any apps on your phone. Hey! Guess what? You were born without any phone at all. And life was still beautiful.

social networking generally involved sitting down at a nonsentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.

As Tolstoy wrote, back in 1894, in The Kingdom of God Is Within You: The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.

Life is the people who love you. No one will ever choose to stay alive for an iPhone. It's the people we reach via the iPhone that matter.

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead. Human brains- in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness- are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the stone age.. Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how we could upgrade our ability to cope with all this change.

He llegado a un planeta donde la forma más inteligente de vida todavía tiene que conducir su propio coche…

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have one foot in the great digital nowhere.

Robots and computers are taking people's jobs. Employers are taking people's weekends. Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

quanto mais as pessoas estavam ligadas às redes sociais, mais solitária a sociedade se tornava.

the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

Wat tegenwoordig sneller gaat dan vroeger: Berichten. Auto's. Olympische sprinters. Nieuws. Rekensnelheid. Foto's. Geld overboeken. Reizen. Groei van de wereldbevolking. Ontbossing van het Amazonewoud. Navigatie. Technologische vooruitgang. Relaties. Politieke incidenten. Je gedachten.

inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon)

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological animal.

It might sound dramatic to say the planet could be heading for a breakdown. But we do know beyond doubt that in all kinds of ways – technologically, environmentally, politically – the world is changing. And fast. So we need, more than ever, to know how to edit the world, so it can never break us down.

And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

She looks at me and smiles in that brisk efficient way. A modern professional smile. the kind of smile that never existed before, say, the telephone.

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.

On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a non-sentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.

Remember, during your mission, never to become influenced or corrupted. The humans are an arrogant species, defined by violence and greed. They have taken their home planet, the only one they currently have access to, and placed it on the road to destruction. They have created a world of divisions and categories and have continually failed to see the similarities among themselves. They have developed technology at a rate too fast for human psychology to keep up

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

researchers worry that heavy use of interactive media can, over time, reduce attention spans. The fear is that we grow so accustomed to frequent bursts of stimulation, we have trouble feeling satisfied in their absence.

Dr. Greenfield, predictably, goes further. He deems young people who are raised on digital devices "Generation D." "They're so amped up on dopamine that when it's not firing, they feel dull, dead," he says. And that means they need to move on to the next thing, quickly, rather than staying with something. "They have no threshold for attentional capacity.

You hear the ping of an incoming text or call, you respond; the ping happens, you respond. And each time you respond, you get a hit of dopamine. It's a pleasurable feeling, a release from the reward center. Then it's gone. There is no incoming text, no stimulation. You start to feel bored. You crave another hit.

For all the gifts of computer technology, if its power goes underappreciated, it can hijack the brain.