Tom Wujec Quotes

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Technology has become our culture

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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.

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

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

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

A full-fledged nanotechnology will disrupt all kinds of social and economic processes. Yet there is no reason to believe that humanity will be unable to cope with what is coming.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

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.