Richard Powers Quotes

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.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

Please, join the modern world.

Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

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

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

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

Just don’t bet against the Internet.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

.. the amount of sensitive information held within the national security apparatus is immensely larger than it was a generation ago. Technological change has caused an explosion in the rate of information production within government agencies, as everywhere else.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

A lot of people forget that anything is accomplishable if you embrace technology.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.