Quotes About Technology

Sociable robotics exploits the idea of a robotic body to move people to relate to machines as subjects, as creatures in pain rather than broken objects. That even the most primitive Tamagotchi can inspire these feelings demonstrates that objects cross that line not because of their sophistication but because of the feelings of attachment they evoke.

Overwhelmed by the volume and velocity of our lives, we turn to technology to help us find time. But technology makes us busier than ever and ever more in search of retreat. Gradually, we come to see our online life as life itself.

The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the eyes of another.5 Without alterity, there can be no empathy.

They are learning a way of feeling connected in which they have permission to think only of themselves.

when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

Teenagers make it clear that games, worlds, and social networking (on the surface, rather different) have much in common. They all ask you to compose and project an identity.

It used to be that we imagined our mobile phones were there so that we could talk to each other. Now we want our mobile phones to talk to us.

He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.

We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And

Connectivity becomes a craving.

Instead of thinking about addiction, it makes sense to confront this reality: We are faced with technologies to which we are extremely vulnerable and we don't always respect that fact. The path forward is to learn more about our vulnerabilities. Then, we can design technology and the environments in which we use them with these insights in mind. For example, since we know that multitasking is seductive but not helpful to learning, it's up to us to promote "unitasking.

The desire for the edited life crosses generations, but the young consider it their birthright.

I send you an idea and you comment on it and send it back is a different process than us talking about an idea together. You lose the better idea that comes out of the exchange. . . . We underestimate how much we learn and read and take in of each other's breathing and body language and presence in a space. . . . Technology filters things out. . . . Breathing the same air matters.

enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.

Anxieties migrate, proliferate.

Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.

When habitual structures dissolve, so do boundaries between people.

When individuals meet transformative technology, that technology can change their inner life and relationships.

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.