Emilio Estevez Quotes

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

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

One thing about computers and iPhones is they're making people mentally lazy.

I've always had an uneasy relationship with technology and how it insinuates itself into our lives: for example. I always prefer talking face-to-face with friends than texting or calling, and if I want to get updates on their lives, I don't go to Facebook but meet them in person.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

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

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

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.