Virginia Postrel Quotes

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.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

I am totally anti-technology.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

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.

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.

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 think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

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

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something.

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

Luddism is no longer with us, but today we seem to be overtaken by its opposite, the inevitability of technological change coupled with the blind belief in capitalism's ability to provide us with all we need.

Technology has become our culture

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.