Done Quote by Alan Dean Foster

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any…

— Stanley Schmidt

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead…

— Stanley Schmidt

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize…

— Stanley Schmidt

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall.…

— Rupert Murdoch

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

— Isabelle Kocher

I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness…

— Sandra Cisneros

Like everyone else, I read newspapers and 'New Scientist' and try to put my finger on the trends which we can just see emerging…

— Alastair Reynolds

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we…

— Mike Wilson

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long…

— Francis Collins

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

— Stewart Butterfield

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

— Donald E. Westlake

...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead…

— Michael Martin Hammer