David Thewlis Quotes

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

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.

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins - a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.

I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

I'm not good at the modern world.

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

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.