Joshua Cohen Technology Quotations

I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.