Dependence on Technology Quotes

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

We do not ride upon the railroad. It rides upon us.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

We are critically dependent on the Internet, and it's ingrained in our way of life.

There's a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I've certainly become more and more aware of that. All it takes is for my phone to run out of battery and I need to find a place and I suddenly realise I have no sense of direction anymore because I'm so used to using it for that.

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you're going through, but it doesn't actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can't show you where the grass or the wells are.