Technology Addiction Quotes

“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.”
― Edgar Degas

“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)”
― Nick Bilton

“We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.”
― Harlan Coben, Six Years

“I believe the day Einstein feared the most is when people circulate pictures of dead bodies of relatives on WhatsApp and get Thumbs Down and Crying smileys as response.”
― Ketan Waghmare

“It is okay to own a technology, what is not okay is to be owned by technology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“I stared at the tweet I was about to post. It wasn't going to add anything to my life. Or anyone else's life. It was just going to lead to more checking of my phone, like Pepys with his pocket watch. I pressed delete, and felt a strange relief as I watch each letter disappear.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“Silicon Psychos (The Sonnet)

If we cared more about the hard problem of real inhumanity,
And less about the fictitious hard problem of consciousness,
We'd have filled the world with human consciousness already,
Instead of still fighting for basic rights against base biases.
What kind of a moron goes walkabout when their home is on fire,
What kind of a moron abandons the living chasing life on silicon!
We really gotta take a hard look at our habits and priorities,
Dreaming is good, but dream devoid of life is but degeneration.
Chimps driving teslas are still chimps no matter the demagoguery,
All intelligence is disgrace if it's unaware of human condition.
A heartless organism living on silicon is no different,
From a heartless organism living in a carbon based human.
Be it crucifix or code, in savage hands every tool is weapon.
The wise use AI to design prosthetics, savages for transhumanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Progress would be wonderful — if only it would stop.”
― Robert Musil

“Businesses with new technologies in LCDs present a revolution in opposing technologies.”
― Edilson Gomes de Lima, Dispensados pelo Excesso de Contingente

“Nuts and bolts do not constitute advancement,
Heart and help constitute true advancement.
Freezers are good for preserving dead meat,
To preserve life we need a warm environment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Nowadays, Staten Island teenagers are glued to smartphones and huddled in cool, dark hideouts, like albino bats

Nowadays, if no one's posted it online, it's not real”
― Marc Arginteanu, Azazel’s Public House

“Totalitarianism is the belief that human intellect can be the guiding principle in life and society. It aims to create a utopian, artificial society led by technocrats or experts who, based on their technical knowledge, will ensure that the machine of society runs flawlessly. In this view, the individual is completely subordinated to being a cog in the machine of society.”
― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“As a computer scientist, I make a living helping to advance the cutting edge of the digital world. Like many in my field, I’m enthralled by the possibilities of our techno-future. But I’m also convinced that we cannot unlock this potential until we put in the effort required to take control of our own digital lives—to confidently decide for ourselves what tools we want to use, for what reasons, and under what conditions. This isn't reactionary, it’s common sense.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical to debunk. One could reap the impression of a character if they pleased. People could post to appear like-minded, tough, the best, smart, creative, melancholy, and rich regardless of their actual state. A profile was a catalog of identity theft: books made one dreamy. Luxury made one wanted. Art made one complex. Travel made one busy. And minimalism made a person seem above it all.

And the pursuit of this fraud only produced further unhappiness. Users’ contributions to the internet proceeded to tell the world that they were content and did not need love, while the very act of posting such a statement said that they were unhappy and indeed in need of love.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Where can we find health?
Not in gadgets but in simpleness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“You don't need to renounce technology to live a healthy and happy life, you just need to reorganize its purpose in your life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effective action to solve it.”
― Donella Meadows, The Limits to Growth

“Technology, imbued with wisdom, adorned by ethics, and draped in compassion, possesses the power to address complex challenges, steer positive societal change, and foster an inclusive, equitable world.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Behind his eyes, at least, he was never truly alone.”
― Chloe Ruffennach, Sirens

“She had taken those worries out to sea for the time being. That, at least, he had programmed so.”
― Chloe Ruffennach, Sirens

“More and more innovations are becoming catalyst of catastrophe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Tech is supposed to help us host life, not hold us hostage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“There's nothing uglier than an endangered mind, reaping the ruins of its own invention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“There's no greater shame than the human universe rendered legless by its senseless pursuit of nuts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Constantly conditioning you for consumerism, smartwatches are dog collars on fancy apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator