3,132 Quotes About Technology

These devices only became very popular after all of this technology was hidden behind a red button that did it all

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.

That people will do whatever a computer screen tells them. I swear to god, you could run the next Holocaust from a fucking fast-food register. He pantomimed aiming a pistol. It says I should kill you now.

The General’s preoccupation with electronic gadgetry irked Randall. The world had become a wondrous fabric of instant communication, linking millions of people in the same old abundance of problems and poverty of solutions.

There was an off-planet directory next to an old rotary phone that looked lost, as if it had wandered in the room and was actually looking for a more modern facility.

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory––away the aeroplane shot.

Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.