We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger. Now we answer, “What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?†“No, it’s Becky. I just called to say hi.†“Well you scared me half to death. You can’t just pick up the phone and try to talk to me like that. Don’t the tips of your fingers work?
Technology: No Place for Wimps!
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.