Quotes About Technology

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

anyone can download and use the code, and new projects migrate from the edges to the center as a

personal conversation last year, "SQL is the new HTML." Database management is a core competency of Web 2.0 companies, so much so that we have sometimes referred to these applications as "infoware" rather than merely software. This fact leads to a key question: Who owns the data? In the internet era, one can already see a number of cases where control over the database has led to market control and outsized financial returns. The

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr

We need to start seeing Moore's Law apply to healthcare," I said. "What's Moore's Law?" the senator asked. "You have to understand, Senator," Reid interjected, "that in Washington, you assume that every year things cost more and do less. In Silicon Valley, everyone expects our products to cost less every year but do more.

be released under an open source license.) The open source dictum, "release early and release often" in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, "the perpetual beta," in which the

Muitas vezes, quando uma nova tecnologia é implementada pela primeira vez, ela amplifica as piores características da antiga forma de fazer negócios. Só gradualmente é que os indivíduos e as organizações percebem, através de uma rede de inovações em cascata, como aplicar a nova tecnologia de forma adequada.

Não é possível gerir adequadamente um país se as elites não entendem a tecnologia da mesma forma que entendem a economia, a ideologia ou a propaganda… Uma boa governação e uma boa sociedade estão agora indissociavelmente ligadas a uma compreensão da realidade digital. - Tom Steinberg

Numa era de vigilância comercial omnipresente que é inerente à capacidade de as empresas prestarem os serviços que solicitamos, o tipo de privacidade que tínhamos no passado morreu.

Gerir uma empresa com trabalhadores que não têm horário, que se limitam a ligar uma aplicação quando querem trabalhar e que concorrem com outros trabalhadores para qualquer trabalho que esteja disponível exige um poderoso conjunto de algoritmos, para assegurar que a oferta de trabalhadores e de clientes se mantenha num equilíbrio dinâmico.

example of such an application, although it hasn't yet gained wide traction. Nor will the Web 2.0 revolution be limited to PC applications. Salesforce.com demonstrates

To recount modern life one has to have characters with iPads and smart phones who take trains and planes, and to be aware how this alters consciousness, identity, and the kind of experiences people have. They are constantly exposed to contact from everyone they know and many they don't.

Life in orbit is spectacular

What's a killer app? There's no standard definition, but basically it's an excellent new idea that either supersedes an existing idea or establishes a new category in its field. It soon becomes so popular that it devastates the original business model.)

We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what's up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn't have any letup in him.

whenever a soldier is laughing instead of blasting you with his futuristic superweapon, that's a good thing.

As the technology of espionage expanded its horizons, the CIA's vision grew more and more myopic. Spy satellites enabled it to count Soviet weapons. They did not deliver the crucial information that communism was crumbling. The CIA's foremost experts never saw the enemy until after the cold war was over.

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.

It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.

For all our secular rationalism and technological advances, potential for surrender to the charms of magical thinking remains embedded in the human psyche, awaiting only the advertiser to awaken it.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.

It is shocking how little it has been necessary to defend the sheer reach of the attention merchant into the entirety of our lived experience. Formerly the state of technology imposed its own limits, but at a time when these limits have been effectively eliminated, it is for us to ask some fundamental questions: Do we draw any lines between the private and the commercial? If so, what times and spaces should we consider as too valuable, personal, or sacrosanct for the usual onslaught?

From the beginning, Microsoft had proven the mantra that good artists copy but great artists steal. Its first operating system (MS-DOS) was actually a clone of CP/M, another operating system.* Microsoft Windows was a rip-off of the Apple Macintosh operating system; Microsoft Word and Excel were copies of Wordperfect and Lotus 1-2-3, respectively.

like late Rome, the Bell system now existed as an eastern and a western empire—Verizon and AT&T (whose