Quotes About Technology

The five attributes of innovations are (1) relative advantage, (2) compatibility, (3) complexity, (4) trialability, and (5) observability.

Complexity is the degree to which an innovation is perceived as difficult to understand and use.

Trialability is the degree to which an innovation may be experimented with on a limited basis.

Thus we see that the diffusion of innovations is a social process, even more than a technical matter.

A technology cluster consists of one or more distinguishable elements of technology that are perceived as being closely interrelated.

Solar adopters often are found in neighborhood clusters in California, with three or four adopters located on the same block. Other consumer innovations like home computers are relatively less observable, and thus diffuse more slowly.

At its most elementary form, the process involves (1) an innovation, (2) an individual or other unit of adoption that has knowledge of the innovation or experience with using it, (3) another individual or other unit that does not yet have experience with the innovation, and (4) a communication channel connecting the two units. A communication channel is the means by which messages get from one individual to another.

La máquina habla a la máquina antes de hablar al hombre.

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

You never saw people anymore, everything was self-service, everybody behind glass windows. And you could not get a real person on the phone. Everywhere you called, a recorded message connected you to another recorded message and then hung up on you.

in 2010, foreign students received more than 50 percent of all Ph.D.'s awarded in every subject in the United States. In the sciences, that figure is closer to 75 percent. Half of all Silicon Valley start-ups have one founder who is an immigrant or first-generation American. America's potential new burst of productivity, its edge in nanotechnology, biotechnology, its ability to invent the future—all rest on its immigration policies.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

For at least ten years, the revenues of the video gaming industry have exceeded those of Hollywood and the music business put together.)

Government investments in science, technology, and infrastructure have slumped sharply

Yet bringing on new coworkers, and establishing trust and teamwork with them, is extremely hard to achieve on video.

When you teleconference, you are spending social capital rather than building it.

E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, it feels eerily prescient in 2020.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

The phone's never far away. The TV's always on. We are constantly on the news cycle; either watching the news, making the news, talking about the news.

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.