David Horsey Quotes

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Whenever technological advancement is made it can always be used both for good or for bad.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real world, is something my students just don't recognise.

I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

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

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

I am totally anti-technology.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.