Community Quote by John McGahern

“In 1950, 10 percent of families had television sets and 38 percent had never seen a TV program. Although 33 million of America's roughly…

— James T. Patterson

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

— Jimmy Buffett

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

— Ted Turner

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over…

— Tariq Ali

I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.

— Danielle Fishel

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used…

— Christopher Walken

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went…

— Thomas Friedman

When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones,…

— Rebecca Solnit

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s -…

— Ben Fountain

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

— William M. Daley

“It’s easy to underestimate how profound and holistic Roddenberry’s vision of the techscape of the future was. By today’s standards, the available technology of…

— Marc Cushman

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

— Reed Hastings