Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.

What if a person’s native or learned abilitiesto process information sensibly could be warped by feeding junk into themental machine? As we say in technology: garbage in, garbage out.We know we’re products of the food we eat. Why wouldn’t we also beproducts of the information we consume?

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.

Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Technology should be part of life but life should not be part of technology.

All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the actual reality! Our preference of technology over nature proves that Man is experiencing everything through the HEAD. What a pity!” 

The four greatest threats to humanity are fundamentalism, nationalism, transhumanism and democracy.

Winston Churchill once said "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.". In a broader context, we have shaped our technology to achieve greater productivity and responsiveness and now our technology is shaping our behavior where we are always "on-demand". This has led to a culture where technology plays a greater role in defining who we are.Take a day off...