Cate Blanchett Quotes

I much prefer the modern world.

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

I love the modern technology now.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

I am a child of the 21st century.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

Tech is all about building human connections.

We cannot be Neanderthal in a high-tech world.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

We live in a world that relies on technology.

Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.