William Shatner Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

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.

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 best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

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

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

No particular technology lasts for long.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

Technology is always ahead of the law.

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.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

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

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.

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

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

We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV.

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

Change is inevitable with the evolution of technology. In the '70s, we had records. In the '80s, we had CDs, and now we are living in the digital age. You can say it's sad or unfortunate, but the reality is you've got to roll with the times and the technology.

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.

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.