Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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.

Technology has become our culture

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

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 live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

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

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

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