Tyler Cowen Quotes

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

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.

We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

Society has come to expect that American science and engineering will contribute to the general economic and social welfare.

We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

The great scientific revolution is still to come. It will ensue when men collectively organize their knowledge for application to achieve and make secure social values; when they systematically use scientific procedures for the control of human relationships and the direction or the social affairs of our vast technological machinery.

Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee.

People say, 'Well everybody needs a cellphone.' Well, what does 'need' mean? Do you need an iPad? How about a computer? A printer?

God love the iPhone. Best time waster of the century.