William Gibson Quotes

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

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.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.

This is a very different world. Much of it is new. What has happened is that information technology has politicized the world…It’s a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries.

Technological advances have brought our nation to a point where momentous public choices are inescapable.

… post-industrial society

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

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.