The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: slavery modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness internet-addiction technology-addiction technology-enchantment
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: technology internet modernity-is-a-sickness internet-addiction technology-addiction technology-enchantment
it turned out that there was something terribly stressful about visual telephone interfaces that hadn't been stressful at all about voice-only interfaces. Videophone consumers seemed suddenly to realize that they'd been subject to an insidious but wholly marvelous delusion about conventional voice-only telephony. They'd never noticed it before, the delusion... ...A traditional aural-only conversation.. ...let you enter a kind of highway-hypnotic semi-attentive fugue: while conversing, you could look around the room, doodle, fine-groom, peel tiny bits of dead skin away from your cuticles, compose phone-pad haiku, stir things on the stove; you could even carry on a whole separate additional sign-language-and-exagerrated-facial-expression type of conversation with peoople right there in the room with you, all while seemingg to be right there attending closely to the voice on the phone. And yet even as you were dividing your attention between the phone call and all sorts of other idle little fuguelike activities, you were somehow never haunted by the suspicion that the person on the other end's attention might be similarly divided.
David Foster WallaceTags: infinite-jest technology-addiction
Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.
C.P. SnowTags: technology-addiction
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
Edgar DegasTags: psychology humorous-quotations technological-shock pavlov technological-evolution technology-addiction
There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.
Harlan CobenTags: peace internet technology-addiction
Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
Eloisa JamesTags: technology phones technology-addiction disconnected
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
Tom ClancyTags: technology computers technology-addiction
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Neil PostmanTags: thinking censorship independent-thought technology-addiction
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.
Eric SchlosserTags: fast-food technology-addiction
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