Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

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

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart.

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.

Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.

I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.

I'm desperately trying to unplug. The last thing I want is a watch that connects to my phone which connects to my iPad that connects to my computer that airplays to my TV.

I see a lot of moms and dads frustrated because their kids have their devices at the dinner table and they can't seem to get their attention as much as they used to.

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

In every public space, everyone has their head down on their phone. Including me.