Omar Ahmad Quotes

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

There is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

This digital world is what you make of it in the end.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

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

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

Digital, it is not the destination.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

Software makes the world go round.

Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.