Jack Ma Quotes

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.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

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

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

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

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

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.

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.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

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

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.

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

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

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.

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.

For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy.