“From painstakingly researched biographies and histories charting the rise and fall of modern business empires to deep dives into the birth of influential gadgets, these are some of the best tech books to gift.”— SIMON HILL, wired.com
“The history of inventions also raises ever more clearly the question of whether a space of absolute comfort or a space of absolute danger is the final aim concealed in technology.”— Ernst Jünger, jstor.org
“His narrator has left us a way out that can be reclaimed by anyone venturesome enough to try it: He patiently attends to his own motorcycle, submits to its quirky mechanical needs and learns to understand it. His way of living with machines doesn’t rely on the seductions of effortless convenience; i…”— Matthew B. Crawford, smithsonianmag.com
“We must make good on our promise as a country to educate all of our children equally, to the best of our ability.”— Dr. Kiesha Taylor, forbes.com
“I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.”— Mike Bloomberg, inc.com
“Everything is functioning. That is precisely what is terror-inducing, that everything functions, that the functioning propels everything more and more toward further functioning, and that technicity increasingly dislodges man and uproots him from the earth.”— Martin Heidegger, kit.ntnu.no
“The truth is that any equipment that has the capability of recording audio and video has the ability to record it even when you don’t engage it in doing so.”— Casey Bond, huffpost.com
“I seem to have been born with an aptitude for a way of life that was doomed.”— Wendell Berry, amazon.com
“During assemblies or classes, teens will AirDrop reactions to what the teacher or presenter is saying.”— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“All the technologies I see that make the world feel small and close are really exciting to me.”— Jack Dorsey, blog.ycombinator.com
“Microsoft, which is culturally becoming a kind of tech underdog compared to Google and Apple, is focusing and recognizing that even an enormous tech company with billions of devices in the wild cannot be everywhere and cannot touch every facet of your life.”— Alex Cranz, gizmodo.com
“These are transformative times. Around the world, from Copenhagen to Chennai to Cupertino, new technologies are driving breakthroughs in humanity’s greatest common projects. From preventing and fighting disease…To curbing the effects of climate change…To ensuring every person has access to informati…”— Tim Cook, 9to5mac.com
“Critics say the companies are monetizing our attention, mishandling our data and profiting from our children. They've concentrated too much economic power. They're shaping our society in ways we don't fully understand yet.”— Lulu Garcia-Navarro, npr.org
“Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like 'digital gangsters' in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law”— Jon Brodkin, Parliament, arstechnica.com
“The lesson of the last decade is that our private tech choices can alter economies and societies. They matter. And they matter most in the mindless rush, when everyone seems to be jumping on board the latest new thing, because it’s in these heady moments that we lose sight of the precise risks of tu…”— Farhad Manjoo, nytimes.com
“If someone calls you via FaceTime, you will probably hear the call coming in, so it won’t be a complete surprise or really stealthy eavesdropping.”— Tony Bradley, forbes.com
“You're gonna look at allowing a 13-year-old to have a smartphone the same way that you would look at allowing your 13-year-old to smoke a cigarette.”— Cal Newport, gq.com
“Mystic staring at his phone for oneness Silver or black mirror, what’s the difference?”— Toro y Moi, open.spotify.com
“People went ahead and built those things without worrying much about the consequences, because they figured that, by 2018, we’d have come up with all the answers.”— Jill Lepore, newyorker.com