Daniel Greenberg Quotes

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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

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.

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.

Unsurprisingly, the most vocal opponents of new technologies are those who dominated the old.

Technology has become our culture

The technological transformation of society contains within itself the dynamo of its own management, but only if we create laws and regulations to permit the information revolution to wash through our democratic structures.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.

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 is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

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.

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.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.