Leos Carax Quotes

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

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

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

Technology has become our culture

Please, join the modern world.

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Technology is not destiny.

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

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.