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Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.
I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the
users to employ each other the way they employ machines.
Their reputation of being the spurners of all useless worldly trivia, prejudices and almost everything else in the world except their own interests.
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?
People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.
People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'
Those who lack the guts to create critic.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
We're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.
I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.
We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.
Hyperentrepreneurs that make even hardcore capitalists nervous.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.
People get comfortable with technologies.
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
For something made of wires, bits, and bytes, technology can elicit some fairly strong emotions in the people who attempt to use it.
Technology was meant to be a tool, not a crutch. The entire world had become dependent on gadgets for entertainment and personal happiness.
There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.
Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.
The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
The question of this book is simple: What is the best use of my smartphone in the flourishing of my life? To that end, my aim is to avoid both extremes: the utopian optimism of the technophiliac and the dystopian pessimistic of the technophobe.
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
they shared mortals' reluctance for either reading instructions or calling customer support.
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
people who feel that fiction should be easy to read, that it's a popular medium
People who are bad at time management. If you say you're going to be somewhere at a certain time, be there!
Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
I'm a tech geek.
Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.
It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology.
Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think they're too old to learn all this new stuff. But eventually they begin to realize, 'Hey, some of this stuff is useful.'
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.
People who don't think shouldn't talk.
If I were fashioning my own killer argument against the digital revolution, I'd begin with the observation that both Newt Gingrich and Timothy Leary are crazy about it.
Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.
You see, writing and talking breathlessly about how technology changes everything might seem harmless, but, in practice, it acts as a distraction from more mundane issues - and an excuse for handling those issues badly.
People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success
that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.
Technology is a goddamn bully.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.
Haters is one way to describe them. They take anything - feminism, religion, lifestyle choices, art - and they ruin them. They go so extreme that they lose sight of the original goal.
He hated computers having names like ZX75 and numbers of megabytes. He hated technology as it was in the 1990s.
I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.
We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.
How often have I warned you against fraternizing with technology?
Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.
I struggle with technology. I think it doesn't like me because I think it knows I don't like it.
I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.
The word "YouTuber," even though - listen, I love YouTube, and I would never, ever abandon it, but I think when somebody says "Youtuber" it says "Oh, they talk about what they ate that day." That's not me - I do way more than that.
We don't need your pity. We get along just fine without it and them other things too. You don't need electronic crap to live. You know, people lived for thousands of years without it. There's a big difference between stuff you want and stuff you need. (Nick)
There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.
With a bored pride; in their own hands a shallow mindless electronic device - it is without doubt - a damning indictment of modern society.
Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
Technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines "freedom," "truth," "intelligence," "fact," "wisdom," "memory," "history" - all the words we live by. And it does not pause to tell us. And we do not pause to ask.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is help people clarify what is amiss, by presenting a critique that is grounded in economics.
The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
They sell the fact that you're susceptible to technical animism.
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.
I despise computers in many ways. I think they're hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it.
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives - it's becoming a part of each and every one of us.
What sort of stewards of the future planet will today's digital children be?
Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.
I'm really not techno-savvy - that's just not my personality.
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
Stupid, fragile mortals.
People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.
I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.
Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.
All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.