Quotes About Technology

Without exception, the brave new technologies of the twentieth century—free use of which was originally encouraged, for the sake of further invention and individual expression—eventually evolved into privately controlled industrial behemoths, the "old media" giants of the twenty-first, through which the flow and nature of content would be strictly controlled for reasons of commerce.

As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.

the mogul makes the medium: the imprint of the personality inevitably informs it, often no less than the technology underlying it. Turner

The owner of an iPod or iPad is in a fundamentally different position: his machine may have far more computational power than a PC of a decade ago, but it is designed for consumption, not creation. Or,

talking about the habit of constantly checking for updates on email/FB/Twitter, etc.) The check-in would eventually become a widespread attentional habit; ..... No other has compelled so many minds with such regularity - regularity that has the feel of a compulsion, of a mental itch constantly in need of being scratched.

Perhaps a century of the ascendant self, of the self's progressive liberation from any trammels not explicitly conceived to protect other selves, perhaps this progression, when wedded to the magic of technology serving not the state or even the corporation but the individual ego, perhaps it could reach no other logical endpoint, but the self as its own object of worship.

A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him,

The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do; rather, their value is in exposing a working model to more minds that might muse upon it and imagine a more evolved version. And

It is inconceivable," said Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, at the first national radio conference in 1922, "that we should allow so great a possibility for service, for news, for entertainment, for education, and for vital commercial purposes to be drowned in advertising chatter.

a "wireless telephone," the ancestor of our mobile phone, of which, by 1916, Bell already had a working prototype.

Hollywood's content, AT&T's lines, and Apple's gorgeous machines—an information paradise of sorts, succeeding

programs are scheduled interruptions of marketing bulletins.

There is no understanding communications, or the American and global culture industry, without understanding the conglomerate. Yet

The one-way plow would later be cursed as the tool that destroyed the plains because of its efficiency at ripping up grass.

Oh, for the pre-Twitter days, when it took something more than a word fart by a president who never opens a book to turn the world upside down.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. —WARREN G. BENNIS,

the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.

The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, "If you want to become a billionaire, invent something that will allow people to indulge their own Resistance." Somebody did invent it. It's called the Internet. Social media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial, jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never

As William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace," has said: "The future is already here—it is just unevenly distributed.

Peter ha escrito en otro lugar: «El próximo Bill Gates no creará un sistema operativo. El próximo Larry Page o Serguéi Brin no hará un buscador de internet. Y el próximo Mark Zuckerberg no creará una red social. Si copias a estos tipos, no estás aprendiendo nada de ellos».

In my case, I use spam filters, autoresponders with FAQs, and automatic forwarding to outsourcers to limit my e-mail obligation to 10–20 e-mail responses per week. It takes me 30 minutes per week because I used systems—elimination and automation—to make it so.

Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that's extraordinary. What do they need?

Destinados al colectivo masculino con buen manejo de las tecnologías de entre veinticinco y cuarenta años de edad residentes en ciudades grandes de Estados Unidos, como San Francisco, Nueva York, Chicago, Los Ángeles, etc. (que me permitieran acelerar el crecimiento/la escalada con mi público).

FollowUp.cc: For automating email follow-ups and reminders. I use a close cousin called Nudgemail,