I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.
Daniel H. WilsonTag: humanity technology
We expect more from technology and less from each other.
Sherry TurkleTag: society technology loneliness modern-society
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
Julian BarnesTag: reading books technology e-readers e-reading
A tap is a zero-length swipe.
Apple Inc.Tag: technology copyright
The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.
Lauren BarnholdtTag: humor technology computers information-age
RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics.
Leah PriceTag: books technology kindle ipad
When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman
Leah PriceTag: books technology e-book personal-library
Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will put an end to hard copies, even for someone like me who loves technology and does not fetishize the physical medium of books. ~ Steven Pinker, author of The Lauguage Instinct, How the Mind Works The Blank Slate and The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
Leah PriceTag: books technology kindle ipad
Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.
Henry MosqueraTag: romance technology conspiracy action latin novel venezuela political thriller martial-arts global espionage hackers intrigue spec-ops black-ops
She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly as they change shoes, I think the world just got filled with too many people, and all our technological advances made things so easy that it cheapened our most basic, essential value somehow," she told him. "It's like spouses are commodities nowadays: disposable, constantly getting tossed back out for trade on the market and everyone's trying to trade up, up--like there is a 'trading up' in love." She rolled her eyes. "No way. That's not for me. I'm having one husband. I'm getting married once. When you know going in that you're staying for life, it makes you think harder about it, go slower, choose really well.
Karen Marie MoningTag: love technology marriage trade highlander karen-marie-moning jessica cian jessi spell-of-the-highlander present-day
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