John M. Ford Quotes

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.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.