James Gleick Quotes

Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

I am not anti-technology; I am pro-conversation.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

In my view, technology should only be used on objective situations - offside, in or out of the box, over the line or not - but when it comes to subjective situations, people are never going to agree. That's sport.

Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

The Internet is neither good nor bad. It's neutral - it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it.

You can fill up your time with anything that you want. And stuff per se is not bad - technology is awesome; if you use it for the right the reason, it's great.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Technology allows us to weed out a lot of the extraneous circumstances that can happen in certain environments. If you have an opportunity to say, "I'm going to be in charge of my own narrative. I'm going to be the one who sees that this is OK for me," like anything else, it just gives you a position of feeling like you can be in charge of those things.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.