Technology Acceptance Quotes

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

I'm not actually terrified of technology. Though I'm certainly not an early adopter, either.

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

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

I've always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it.

Nothing is worse than the person in their 40s who says, 'I'm not going to learn this.' 'I don't carry an iPad.' That will label you and put you right in the corner. Some people do it as a badge of honor. I've seen them myself, they walk around bragging [about not knowing much about technology].

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

People get comfortable with technologies.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.

I'm not anti-technology at all, really.