quotations about the Internet
Trying to prevent customers from using the Internet is like trying to prevent a person from ordering french fries when they are at McDonald's.
ZONGQING ZHOU
E-commerce & Information Technology in Hospitality & Tourism
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms.
JARON LANIER
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light.
CHITRALEKHA PAUL
Delayed Monsoon
Internet friends don't count.
RAINBOW ROWELL
Fangirl
The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
WILLIAM GIBSON
The New York Times, Jul. 14, 1996
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.
JARON LANIER
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
The Internet is like a network of electronic roads criss-crossing the planet -- the much-hyped 'information superhighway'. The Web is only one of many services using that network, just as many different kinds of vehicle use the roads. The Web just happens to be by far the most popular.
BRIAN KETTELL
Valuation of Internet and Technology Stocks
The internet will suck all creative content out of the world.
DAVID BYRNE
The Guardian, November 26, 2014
You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.
RAY BRADBURY
attributed, "Ray Bradbury: A Visionary Who Couldn't Embrace the Digital Age", Mashable, June 6, 2012