E. O. Wilson Quotes

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

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

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Isn't it strange that as technology advances, the quality of life frequently declines.

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

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

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.

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

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 not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.