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I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology. -- Kerry Bishe
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. -- Niklas Zennstrom
Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all. -- John Grogan
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. -- Steve Jobs
Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet. -- Jason Hirschhorn
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. -- Douglas Coupland
It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new. -- Dean Wareham
Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one. -- Judith Martin
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff. -- Monica Edwards
I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology. -- Mario Andretti
Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past. -- Mark McKinnon
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech. -- Charles Leadbeater
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. -- Jennifer Egan
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight. -- Ray Kurzweil
Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. -- Jurgen Habermas
How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure. -- Dana Brunetti
Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds. -- Richard Blumenthal
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. -- John Callahan
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects. -- Clive Thompson
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. -- Howard Rheingold
I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old. -- Richard Lamm
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
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. -- Cameron Sinclair
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up -- Marc Andreessen
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit. -- Peter Drucker
I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology. -- Douglas Rushkoff
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths. -- Paul Saffo
We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology. -- Dan Barber
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere. -- Guido Palau
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command. -- Steven Pressfield
If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old! -- Bill Buxton
More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
I was attracted by the curve â?? the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches. -- Oscar Niemeyer
The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies. -- James Dyson
I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a LuddÂite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store. -- Charlie Brooker

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