David Gelernter Quotes

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.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

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

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

So much of the world is digital.