Amber Heard Quotes

'In Another Time' talks about our addiction to technology.

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

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.

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

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

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 don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!

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

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.