Douglas Tompkins Quotes

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

Weird how fast technology changes.

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

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

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.

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.

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.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

IT for a long time has been about how do you make old processes more efficient. But with all of the progress in digital technology, there is a kind of digital transformation that is occurring. And you see it with the explosion in the number of devices; you see it in the explosion in the number of applications.

We live in a world that relies on technology.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

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

I want people to understand how the tech world changes my world.

Technology is the future. I love technology.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.