Quotes About Technology

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Famous designer Erik Spiekermann released a font called Axel that he designed for on screen use in spreadsheets.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

[On surveillance of Americans] We're not just changing how we live, we're changing human nature itself. . . . When everything is recorded, there isn't any right and wrong for its own sake. It's just caught and uncaught.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

Put simply, between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question.

the mountain and the television weren't so much in different time zones as in different dimensions.

a man with a phone more or less permanently affixed to his palm is partway a robot already

something else created modernity, the world that most of us reading this book inhabit. That something was the sudden availability, beginning in the early eighteenth century, of cheap fossil fuel. An exaggeration? One barrel of oil yields as much energy as twenty-five thousand hours of human manual labor

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

TV was like a third parent- a source of ideas and information and impressions. and not such a bad parent- always with time to spare, always eager to please, often funny.

increasingly we live in a world filled with the equivalents of deadly garage-door openers, unnecessary items that offer us mild and insipid comfort at the price of a dangerous and uncomfortable planet, and at the price of any real relationship to the physical world. if you live in a suburban home and commute to a parking garage somewhere, that ten seconds of opening the garage door(manually) might be nearly the only rain you ever feel.

I worry that my own business... helps to make this an anxious age of agitated amnesiacs... We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little about the last sixty years.

Humans Control the Earth; Nerds Should Guide the Humans

I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.

Our understanding of evolution came to us by exactly the same method of scientific discovery that led to printing presses, polio vaccines, and smartphones.

Despite being more connected than ever before, we're not particularly generous toward, or understanding of, one another, preferring to hide behind denial and personal bias.

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Digital lights in the center of the round door began