Digital Age Quotes

It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the world just as the world is attempting to maximize every form of alert. Sound-light shows, as new cliché, are in effect mergers, retrievers of the tribal condition. It is a state that has already overtaken private enterprise, as individual businesses form into massive conglomerates. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people do themselves. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Marshall McLuhan

I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain.

There is a cookie trail of all my interests lodged in some digital sphere which will one day consolidate the collected data of six billion souls and vomit out—I don't know—personalized infomercials for deodorant and car wax.

J. Lincoln Fenn

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit,” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.

Pearl Zhu

Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.

Pearl Zhu

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

Never underestimate the power of a tweet.

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.

José Antonio Bowen

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

People are lazy that’s why today’s technology is crazy.