Cell phone Quote by Anders Olsson

We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

— Jimmy Buffett

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of…

— Marina Abramovic

“In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such…

— Gerald Durrell

“The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths…

— Jeff Davidson

Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew…

— Vincent Canby

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

— Katherine Dunn

“The wonderful thing about modern technology is the amount of communication and information-sharing it facilitates. And the awful thing about modern technology is the…

— Mark McGuinness

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…

— Tracy Chapman

“Why is it that you think that technologies are any more distracting than your own mind or anything else in the world?”

— Manoush Zomorodi

I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny…

— David Grubbs