Quotes from Robert Scoble

Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.

Using various combinations of the five contextual forces, forward-thinking marketers are shifting focus away from mass messages and more into what Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, calls "right-time experiences," where mobile technologies deliver customers the right information "at precisely the moment of need.

According to Business Insider, VR headsets alone will grow from a $37 million dollar industry in 2015 to $2.8 billion in 2020—growing by a factor of 75. Goldman Sachs predicts revenue from all categories of VR including software will reach $110 billion by 2020, making the category bigger than the TV industry in its first five years. We

The force is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars

History shows that where gamers take people, everything else follows. There

By contrast, young people are spending more time on their phones. A new generation is emerging that considers their phones to be their personal computers. Simultaneously, it is becoming cool to not own a car at all.

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

From baby steps the Pats management hopes to be jogging later in the 2013-2014 season. That's when the Gillette system starts getting deeply contextual. They are gathering data on the eating and drinking habits of participating fans. They know when a season ticket holder is attending and what that customer's buying habits are during a game, so they can start to predict who will be ordering what at a particular moment in every game.

old Google Glass monitored what people watched; now Google Everywhere monitors what they think. Although Glass came to know Scoble better than even his spouse, Everywhere knows him better than he knows himself.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it. Scott McNealy, co-founder, Sun Microsystems

In the connected world, customers are no longer just a number or account; they are unique human beings with a distinct set of needs.

3.5 billion networked products by 2015. Compare that to 1.7 billion networked PCs and it's clear that the "Internet of Things" has arrived.

On a visit to New York City, Robert Scoble posted on Highlight that he was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a certain brand of jeans. As he walked through the main entrance, a sales representative knew he was headed her way because she had seen his Highlight post. She recognized him by his user ID photo. Through Highlight's messaging feature she escorted Scoble to the jeans he had mentioned.

So when someone sends out 10 million emails, as is so often the case, they don't really care that 9,800,000 people ignored or were annoyed by the intrusion.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder MIT Media Labs

Many people do not yet realize it, but the modern car is as much a contextual tool as a smart phone is—only a lot bigger.

Anther promising gesture innovator is Leap Motion, which makes a cute little activating touchpad that enables you to do all sorts of things by gesture on your desktop computer, including art, graphics, games, handwriting, drawing, map navigation, photo blowups and more.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt stated in their exquisite photo book, The Human Face of Big Data, "Now, in the first day of a baby's life today, the world creates 70 times the data contained in the entire Library of Congress.

the time it took to get our smartphones out of our pockets and into our hands, scroll and click on our camera app, choose the right photo or video option and finally point and click is as long as 12 seconds.

His eye contact with his partner had improved. Scoble wasn't constantly staring at and tapping on the small screen of his phone, as he was so prone to do. Glass had improved the way we related to each other.

Without location, there is no context." And for Apple, without context there will be no leadership.

PintoFeed enables you to feed your pet remotely and check to see if Tabby or Rover is healthy and eating right.

The larger looming issue is the very real loss of personal privacy and the lack of transparency about how it happens. The marvels of the contextual age are based on a tradeoff: the more the technology knows about you, the more benefits you will receive.