Don Hewitt Quotes

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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.

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Technology, through automation and artificial intelligence, is definitely one of the most disruptive sources.

Warp speed developments in technology - automation, artificial intelligence, and the arrival of the sharing economy - are transforming how we work. Beyond technology, traditional working patterns are also being disrupted by changes in society, organizations and workforce management, leading to the rise of a more independent and dispersed workforce.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

The future is now.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

The future is here.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

Technology makes the world a new place.

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

A new era of production has begun. It's principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has been brought about by the combination of the computer and the self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost unlimited capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social system to meet its own needs .... As machines take over production from men, they absorb an increasing proportion of resources while men who are displaced become dependent on minimal and unrelated [to their work] governmental measures—unemployment insurance, social security, welfare payments.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

Science and technology is going to change every day for the rest of your lives.