Godfrey Reggio Quotes

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Technology has become our culture

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

I am totally anti-technology.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.