80s Quote by Esther Dyson

“What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside…

— Katie Kacvinsky

We used our brains to create and program them, and now we have to continue to use our brains to prevent computers from taking…

— Lorne Greene

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press,…

— Joshua Foer

Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of…

— Mike McCue

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies…

— Paul Saffo

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with…

— Rana el Kaliouby

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

— Danny Hillis

“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific…

— Dan Simmons

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are…

— Ellen Ullman

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“underwater cities, and robot personal assistants. From the 1930s on, science fiction pulp magazines and comic books promised us that by the year 2000…

— James Kakalios