Quotes About Technology

By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.

Cognifying photography has revolutionized it because intelligence enables cameras to slip into anything (in a sunglass frame, in a color on clothes, in a pen) and do more, including calculate 3-D, HD, and many other options that earlier would have taken $100,000 and a van full of equipment to do. Now cognified photography is something almost any device can do as a side job.

Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can't think.

This is the curse of the postscarcity world: We can connect to only a thin thread of all there is. Each

That monopoly of a persistent identity is the real engine of Facebook's remarkable success.

By 2050 most truck drivers won't be human. Since truck driving is currently the most common occupation in the U.S., this is a big deal.

The Internet will be the CB radio of the '90s," he told me, a charge he later repeated to the press. Weiswasser summed up ABC's argument for ignoring the new medium: "You aren't going to turn passive consumers into active trollers on the internet.

Looking back, I think the computer age did not really start until this moment, when computers merged with the telephone. Stand-alone computers were inadequate. All the enduring consequences of computation did not start until the early 1980s, that moment when computers married phones and melded into a robust hybrid. In

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years.

Heavily cognified, incredibly smart filters can be applied to any realm

As the old joke goes: "Software, free. User manual, $10,000." But it's no joke.

We should really call AIs "AAs," for "artificial aliens." An

The industrial age was driven by analog copies—exact and cheap. The information age is driven by digital copies—exact and free.

Keeping a website or a software program afloat is like keeping a yacht afloat. It is a black hole for attention. I

The funny thing about a whole class of technology that enhances experience and personalization is that it puts great pressure on us to know who we are.

The truth is no online database will replace your newspaper," he claimed. "Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure." Stoll captured the prevailing skepticism of a digital world full of "interacting libraries, virtual communities, and electronic commerce" with one word: "baloney.

A distributed, decentralized network is more a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs.

No matter how long you have been using a tool, endless upgrades make you into a newbie—the new user often seen as clueless. In this era of "becoming," everyone becomes a newbie. Worse, we will be newbies forever. That should keep us humble.

we can get the most from the technologies when we "listen" to the direction the technologies lean, and bend our expectations, regulations, and products to these fundamental tendencies within that technology.

The Sensory Substitution Vest takes audio from tiny microphones in the vest and translates those sound waves into a grid of vibrations that can be felt by a deaf person wearing it. Over a matter of months, the deaf person's brain reconfigures itself to "hear" the vest vibrations as sound, so by wearing this interacting cloth, the deaf can hear.

Before the internet there was simply no way to coordinate a million people in real time or to get a hundred thousand workers collaborating on one project for a week. Now we can, so we are quickly exploring all the ways in which we can combine control and the crowd in innumerable permutations.

Nicholas Negroponte, head of MIT's Media Lab, once quipped in the 1990s that the urinal in the men's restroom was smarter than his computer because it knew he was there and would flush when he left, while his computer had no idea he was sitting in front of it all day. That

Now we get angry if the network is slow, but before, when we were innocent, we had no thoughts of the network at all.

The last 30 years has created a marvelous starting point, a solid platform to build truly great things. But what's coming will be different, beyond, and other. The things we will make will be constantly, relentlessly becoming something else. And the coolest stuff of all has not been invented yet. Today truly is a wide-open frontier. We are all becoming. It is the best time ever in human history to begin. You are not late.