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Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.

— Ellen Goodman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

— David Tang

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

— Feist

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

— David Grann

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

— Isaac Asimov

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

— Roger McGuinn

People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

— Jan Koum

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

— Gray Scott

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

— Antonio Perez

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

— Joan Collins