A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about
Douglas Adams
What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Steve Jobs
The PC is the LSD of the Nineties.
Timothy Leary
With the internet, a computer is a door rather than a box.
Clay Shirky
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience
widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands offers a compromise. You can be a loner but never alone.
Sherry Turkle
3 comments:
Interesting. As for the last one, I think it also encourages loner-ness, if not loneliness, and people are missing out on real conversations and all they can bring to our mental and physical health.
Thanks, The;ma. Neat thoughts!
A bicycle for the mind. Never thought of the computer in that way.
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