76 Quotes About Technology-addiction

Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

I stared at the tweet I was about to post. It wasn't going to add anything to my life. Or anyone else's life. It was just going to lead to more checking of my phone, like Pepys with his pocket watch. I pressed delete, and felt a strange relief as I watch each letter disappear.

What if a person’s native or learned abilitiesto process information sensibly could be warped by feeding junk into themental machine? As we say in technology: garbage in, garbage out.We know we’re products of the food we eat. Why wouldn’t we also beproducts of the information we consume?

Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.