Modern Technology Quotes

“I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“Those who ignore the destructive potential of new tech­nologies can do so only because they ignore history. Pogroms are as old as Christendom; but without railways, the tele­graph and poison gas there could have been no Holocaust. There have always been tyrannies; but without modern means of transport and communication, Stalin and Mao could not have built their gulags. Humanity's worst crimes were made possible only by modern technology.”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

“The internet is used as not just a tool anymore but as part of our daily makeup. Almost like oxygen. Discipline goes a long way in protecting our sanity.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar, Creativity is Everything

“The business is in trouble again because of the modern world. People are watching nonsense on their phones and ordering books online. If that keeps up, places like this might cease to exist."
Apparently, he did have some understanding of the difficulties her mother had been having.
Dorothy's face drained of color. "No," she said. "Bookstores are magic.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop