Quotes About Digital

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Digital is expensive, from the computers to the professional software to the technicians, but digital helps me to create more beautiful images in less time.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.

Whole chapters of contemporary history are disappearing into the ether as e-mails get trashed and webpages are taken down and people die without sharing their passwords.

But it (serial television) doesn't remain in the mind. It doesn't produce positive effects in political terms, in ideological terms. My impression is that this extraordinary digital revolution is producing also an extraordinary confusion.

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens , and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop .

With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.

They remain, by definition, so far as the stereotype goes, odd, remote, reputed to be borderline autistic, and generally opaque to anyone outside their own tribe—They are mutants, born with abilities far beyond those of normal humans. The late M.I.T. professor Joseph Weizenbaum identified and described the species back at the dawn of the digital age, in his 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason:

One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him.

This would involve disconnection—the computer equivalent of death. Despite

Verdaderamente que esa palabra de periódico resultaba un anacrónico pegote en la era de la electrónica. El texto era puesto al momento automáticamente cada hora

As soon as anyone on Earth could see and talk to anyone else by pressing a button, most of the need for cities vanished.

In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.