John Perry Barlow Quotes

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

So much of the world is digital.

The most human thing about us is our technology.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

… modern civilization … enables us to cure sickness on a huge scale and to destroy each other on a huge scale. It enables us to liberate each other on a huge scale and to tyrannize each other on a huge scale…. There is no evidence of any continuous upward line of social progress

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

The Internet is neither good nor bad. It's neutral - it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

You can fill up your time with anything that you want. And stuff per se is not bad - technology is awesome; if you use it for the right the reason, it's great.

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.

Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.

I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.