Godfrey Reggio Quotes

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.

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.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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.

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.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

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

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

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.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

Technology has become our culture