Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evgeny Morozov

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Evgeny Morozov

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

Evgeny Morozov

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Evgeny Morozov

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Evgeny Morozov

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Evgeny Morozov

Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

Evgeny Morozov

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

Evgeny Morozov

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

Evgeny Morozov

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

Evgeny Morozov

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever,

Evgeny Morozov

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

Esther Dyson

People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

Esther Dyson

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

Esther Dyson

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Esther Dyson

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

Ezra Klein

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Graham McTavish

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Godfrey Reggio

What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Godfrey Reggio

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Godfrey Reggio

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Godfrey Reggio

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Godfrey Reggio

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Godfrey Reggio

Technology is not neutral.

Godfrey Reggio

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Gijs de Vries

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

Gregory Benford

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Gregory Benford

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Honor Harger

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.

Homaro Cantu

Gastronomy has to catch up to the evolution in technology.

Homaro Cantu

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

Ian Stewart

To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.

Ian Rankin

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.