Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

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.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

No particular technology lasts for long.

One of the main reasons that we have made so much progress in so many technological areas in recent years is that many people care about those areas.

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

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

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.