Quotes About Technology

On the floor, directly underneath my suspended haptic chair, was my Okagami Runaround omnidirectional treadmill.

Now everyone could be on TV, every second of every day, whether or not anyone was watching.

These days, most gunters referred to them as "the Sux0rz." (Because they sucked.)

That was the reason a lot of our own users had started to refer to GSS as the "New Sixers" and me, Aech, Shoto, and Samantha as the "Four Nerds of the Apocalypse.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Don't look directly in their eyes!" I heard Aech shout at us. "Never look in any of their eyes, OK?" I immediately averted my eyes and saw Shoto do the same thing. Aech caught us both staring at the ground. "I didn't tell you to avoid looking at them!" Aech shouted. "Just avoid looking any of them in the eye for longer than a second or two, or they'll go berserk, OK?

I'd realized that the best thing for my mental health would be to abandon social media altogether.

Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben konnte mir die OASIS gestohlen bleiben.

Welcome to the OASIS, Parzival!

There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their problem. Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?

Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder

My generation had never known a world without the OASIS. To us, it was much more than a game or an entertainment platform. It had been an integral part of our lives for as far back as we could remember. We'd been born into an ugly world, and the OASIS was our one happy refuge.

William Higinbotham

So these aliens, they really have Glaive Fighters?

life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

Christ! Haven't any of you rewatched The Matrix lately? Or Sword Art Online?

Normally, the newsfeeds didn't interrupt everyone's interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that.

She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.

AA 241:87—I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A

Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Scalzi, Zelazny.

stood frozen as the robots lumbered by, joints clanking and servos whining.

We were witnessing the dawn of the posthuman era. The Singularity by way of simulacra and simulation.

As soon as they saw Aech's score increase, they would have used Fyndoro's Tablet of Finding and learned that he was currently on Frobozz.