David Gerrold Quotes

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

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

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.