Jennifer Egan Quotes

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.

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.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

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.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

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.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

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.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

Technology has become our culture

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.

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.