Stanley Schmidt Quotes

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

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

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

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

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

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.

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

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

That's the one drawback of trying to keep up with technology, is that it changes quicker than films can come out.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

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.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

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.

I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately distributed, and late followers learn from the reactions and dilemmas of those who had initially encountered the disruptive change.

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

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

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

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.