Margaret Atwood Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Communication, Mean

• Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dark, Technology, Arrows

• People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Technology, People

  "Margaret Atwood On Progress, Fear And Social Media". Interview with Claire Sibonney, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

• I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Thinking, Age

• Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Done, Form

  Source: www.slate.com

• Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Technology, Way

  Source: www.slate.com

• I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Discovery, Space

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.92, Basic Books

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