Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

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

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

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

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.

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.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

As efficiently as our phones connect us to one another, and as much as we take advantage of that, we must remember that they have the power to alienate us, too.

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.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

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

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

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.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.

We live in the physical world, the age of the Internet, and it's very easy to disappear from view and isolate ourselves from the rest of world and become invisible.