Talib Kweli Quotes

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

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

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.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

We do live in this age of new media.

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

I wouldn't be anywhere without the Internet.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

… post-industrial society

Technology has become our culture

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.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

So much of the world is digital.

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.

We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.

The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.