Richard Powers Quotes

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Technology has become our culture

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

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

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.