Robin Day Quotes

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

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

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.

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

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.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

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.

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.