Pranav Mistry Quotes

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.