Douglas Coupland Technology Quotations

When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

Technology favors horrible people.

What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.