Long term Quote by 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

“We have tendencies to exaggerate and overestimate what we can achieve in the short-term and to underestimate what we can achieve in the long-term.”

— Shea Matthew Fisher

“we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.”

— Mark Batterson

“Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.”

— Kim J. Vicente

“biggest wins from new technology will go to the societies and firms that don’t just double down on the past but that can adapt…

— Alec J. Ross

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

— Isabelle Kocher

“It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business…

— Mark Hurst

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The point is this: When seen through the lens of technology, few resources are truly scarce; they’re mainly inaccessible. Yet the threat of scarcity…

— Peter H. Diamandis

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will…

— Neil Postman