Esther Dyson Quotes

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

I like people-people rather than movie people.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

I learned that every conversation shouldn't be had via social media.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

I don't exclusively talk to people on social media; I don't meet people through Tinder. I try to keep it face-to-face, and to be aware if my phone is sucking me away from the rest of the world.

A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it's all digital and at a distance. There's this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there's been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.

I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual.

Social media is great because you can get information out there quick or you can use it as a ministry tool, but when you're on it all the time and you're not spending time with people and you're not sitting there looking at someone in the eyes and asking, "How are you doing?" that's when it's out of balance.

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.