Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Technology has become our culture

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

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.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

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.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

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

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.