Long Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“We tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term.”

— Roy Amara

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

— Roy Amara

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

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

“Not only are the new technologies exponential, digital, and combinatorial, but most of the gains are still ahead of us. In the next twenty-four…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens…

— Jared Cohen

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

— Chris Anderson

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

— Henry Petroski

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

— Niels Bohr

We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

— Vinod Khosla

Look at how fast technology is developing.

— Douglas Tompkins

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static.…

— Steve Jurvetson