Sentence examples for obsession with technology from inspiring English sources

"[Ballard] was incredibly prescient about our obsession with technology and how we outsource our needs to machines," he said.

Over the next half century or so the obsession with technology was matched by a need to open up the booming metropolis to light and air.

In the ensuing years this architect could generally be counted on for big, bold forms; a fetishistic obsession with technology; and a magician's bag of optical tricks.

It was neither the end place of the western obsession with technology, nor, emphatically, was it a consequence of an unbridled extension of state power.

Life became harder when sanctions were tightened in 2011, but even now Iranians live much better than most of their neighbours.Prosperity has inspired an obsession with technology that restrictions on internet access cannot dampen.

In "iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us" (Palgrave Macmillan), Dr. Rosen surveys the existing research, throws in a bit of his own and suggests ways that users of new technologies can avoid behavioral pitfalls.

He attributes this to a number of factors including the obsession with technology-oriented innovation; rising inequality, stagnating education, and globalization.

But the mundane flip side to all this spiritual duende is an obsession with speed, technology and technique.

And amid our cultural obsession with using technology to track and measure our performance, there's something nice about an app that, instead of rating and ranking kids, mostly just lets them read.

In 2000, this obsession with whizzy technology caused Europe's mobile-phone industry to get carried away in the bidding for licences to operate third-generation (3G) mobile networks, which can support higher voice capacity and faster data downloads than existing 2G networks.

It was, after all, co-founder Rubin's lifelong obsession with the technology that gave Google's mobile operating system its name.