Bruce Sterling Quotes

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

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.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

There are a lot of things that need correcting in this country, but there is not the slightest use of feeling over-pessimistic about it..

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.