Pranav Mistry Quotes

Technology is just a means. It's not the end.

Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

I think that integrating information to everyday objects will not only help us to get rid of the digital divide, the gap between these two worlds, but will also help us, in some way, to stay human, to be more connected to our physical world.

By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I am more on the side of humans than robots.

A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.