Afraid Quote by Jason Silva

I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.

— Mark Zuckerberg

“Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first…

— Alfred Hermida

Technology can help us connect to people and viewpoints we'd never otherwise experience: using it as a way of avoiding awkward but straightforward conversations…

— Dawn Foster

New technologies always reshape society, and it's always tempting to worry about them solely for this reason.

— Tristan Harris

In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline…

— Judy Woodruff

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the…

— Mario Bunge

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has…

— Richard Dooling

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

— Moshe Vardi

I've always had an uneasy relationship with technology and how it insinuates itself into our lives: for example. I always prefer talking face-to-face with…

— Ng Chin Han

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as…

— Clay Shirky

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

— Gray Scott