Quotes About Technology

Asimismo, una persona que trabajaba en el área del marketing en los años noventa quizá no imaginó que hoy debe tener sólidos conocimientos en análisis digital. Por lo tanto, para seguir siendo valiosos en nuestra economía, es necesario que dominemos el arte de aprender rápidamente cosas complicadas. Esta labor exige un trabajo profundo. Si no cultivamos esta aptitud, nos quedaremos atrás conforme vaya avanzando la tecnología.

Facebook'un bugün iki milyardan fazla kullan?c?s? var ve 500 milyar dolarl?k piyasa de?eriyle ABD'nin en de?erli be?inci ?irketi. Öte yandan petrol ve do?algaz ?irketi ExxonMobil'in de?eriyse yakla??k 370 milyar dolar. Anla??lan Facebook ve Google gibi ?irketlerin temel kayna?? olan insan dakikalar?n? toplamak, petrol ç?karmaktan çok daha kârl? bir i? art?k.

The goal of this book is to make the case for digital minimalism, including a more detailed exploration of what it asks and why it works, and then to teach you how to adopt this philosophy if you decide it's right for you.

You can't, in other words, build a billion dollar empire like Facebook if you're wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook.

What makes general-purpose computing powerful is that you don't need separate devices for separate uses, not that it allows you to do multiple things at the same time. The

The rise of professional instant messaging, mentioned earlier in this chapter, can be seen as this mind-set pushed toward an extreme. If receiving an e-mail reply within an hour makes your day easier, then getting an answer via instant message in under a minute would improve this gain by an order of magnitude.

Do what Thoreau did, which is learn to have a little disconnectedness within the connected world—don't run away.

Deep work is important, in other words, not because distraction is evil, but because it enabled Bill Gates to start a billion-dollar industry in less than a semester.

Over a hundred years earlier, Thoreau demonstrated similar concern, famously writing in Walden that "we are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

By the early 2000s, however, if you stood on that same street corner, white earbuds would be near ubiquitous. The iPod succeeded not just by selling lots of units, but also by changing the culture surrounding portable music. It became common, especially among younger generations, to allow your iPod to provide a musical backdrop to your entire day—putting the earbuds in as you walk out the door and taking them off only when you couldn't avoid having to talk to another human.

In other words, those with the oracular ability to work with and tease valuable results out of increasingly complex machines will thrive.

an age of ubiquitous and addictive click-bait.

in many cases these addictive properties of new technologies are not accidents, but instead carefully engineered design features.

two forces from this longer treatment that not only seemed particularly relevant to our discussion, but as you'll soon learn, repeatedly came up in my own research on how tech companies encourage behavioral addiction: intermittent positive reinforcement and the drive for social approval.

In addition to executives, we can also include, for example, certain types of salesmen and lobbyists, for whom constant connection is their most valued currency.

If you don't attempt to weigh pros against cons, but instead use any glimpse of some potential benefit as justification for unrestrained use of a tool, then you're unwittingly crippling your ability to succeed in the world of knowledge work.

Writing in the early 1990s, as the personal computer revolution first accelerated, Postman argued that our society was sliding into a troubling relationship with technology. We were, he noted, no longer discussing the trade-offs surrounding new technologies, balancing the new efficiencies against the new problems introduced. If it's high-tech, we began to instead assume, then it's good. Case closed.

Once we view these personal technology processes through the perspective of diminishing returns, we'll gain the precise vocabulary we need to understand the validity of the second principle of minimalism, which states that optimizing how we use technology is just as important as how we choose what technologies to use in the first place.

I propose and defend the perhaps controversial claim that your relationships will strengthen if you stop clicking "Like" or leaving comments on social media posts, and become harder to reach by text messages.

recommend that you try to spend some time away from your phone most days. This time could take many forms, from a quick morning errand to a full evening out, depending on your comfort level.

The Innovators, Isaacson later

First Facebook, then the iPhone: compulsive communicating and connecting—supported by mysterious, almost magical innovations in radio modulation and fiber-optic routing—swept our culture before anyone had the presence of mind to step back and re-ask Thoreau's fundamental question: To what end?

Entertainment-focused websites designed to capture and hold your attention for as long as possible...provide a cognitive crutch to ensure you eliminate any chance of boredom. Such behavior is dangerous, as it weakens your mind's general ability to resist distraction, making #deepwork difficult later when you really want to concentrate.

There are many ways to portray this change. I think the social critic Laurence Scott does so quite effectively when he describes the modern hyper-connected existence as one in which "a moment can feel strangely flat if it exists solely in itself.