Alex Lawther Quotes

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

I'm a bit of a technophobe.

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.

I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

I'm such a technophobe.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.