Quotes About Technology

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments.

Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

"Firewall" seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides "military" and "government?"

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

The Internet helps break down so many barriers. People start to see what's happening around the world, they feel more of a oneness and they get information all at the same time, so that helps.

I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.