Quotes About Digitalization

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

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

Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification.

The way I describe this when talking with businesspeople is that the domain of technology is no longer in the IT department; the whole company is technology. I'm talking about all companies. If you're trying to make cars or medical devices or any kind of product at all, and you want to have new customers, technology is the fulcrum of progress in everything you're doing.

La carne del mundo es sustituida por su imagen numerizada; el ser de las cosas es suplantado por el gráfico de sus variaciones.

It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions.

software can end up turning the most intimate and personal of human activities into mindless "rituals" whose steps are "encoded in the logic of web pages."33

the inevitability of turning the pages of books into online images should not prevent us from considering the side effects. To make a book discoverable and searchable online is also to dismember it. The cohesion of its text, the linearity of its argument or narrative as it flows through scores of pages, is sacrificed.

When the Net absorbs a medium, it re-creates that medium in its own image. It not only dissolves the medium's physical form; it injects the medium's content with hyperlinks, breaks up the content into searchable chunks, and surrounds the content with the content of all the other media it has absorbed. All these changes in the form of the content also change the way we use, experience, and even understand the content.

the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.

A drawn line can be many things," he says, whereas a digitized line has to be just one thing.27

Technology shapes economics, and economics shapes society.

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.