Digital Overload Quotes

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

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.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'

The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Social media overwhelms me.

I shift between Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat probably 250 times a day, which probably isn't healthy, but I'm unfortunately addicted.

We're all trapped in the digital world. It's filled with cat videos, and you have to dodge comments about how much you stink.

Multimedia scares me off.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

I consume media in a very frenetic, overtweeting way.

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Computers make me totally blank out.