Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

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.

When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

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.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Technology has become our culture

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.