Quotes About Technology

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

The natural end of an era, as designers whose houses bear their names grow old and pass away, combined with the arrival of digital cameras and Internet exposure, has created a perfect storm.

It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can't magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You can't eat it. You can't shield a bullet.

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

Solar storms cause power outages. They pose a hazard to satellites. They might interfere with your GPS or send your compass a couple of degrees off course. But I don't think solar storms are a life-threatening event.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.

Perhaps storytellers don't need to care as much about the future as executives and investors do. After all, isn't it possible that technology will enable storytellers to connect directly to their audience without the need for anyone to share the programming decisions or the profit in between? Don't bet on it.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

Who knows what form storytelling will take in the future?

As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

VR should offer an experience that's more exciting than watching in 2D, and we're pretty good at 2D storytelling, so the bar's already pretty high.

If we can find our storytelling in more complimentary ways with the technology, I think it's just going to get better and better.

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.