James Gleick Quotes

Every technology is used before it is completely understood. We are living in that lag, and it is a right time to keep our head.

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

Luddism is no longer with us, but today we seem to be overtaken by its opposite, the inevitability of technological change coupled with the blind belief in capitalism's ability to provide us with all we need.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

Asians love technology. They see it as the path to a good life. This is not so in Europe where there is much skepticism about technology—maybe because of Nazi Germany and its use of technology.

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

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 age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

Technology is not destiny.

Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

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.

When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

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.

I am totally anti-technology.

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.