Quotes About Digital

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Traditional media brand advertising is 65% to 70% spend; online, it's like 28%. You've got a huge margin.

The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.

I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

In 2011, mobile data traffic in the United States was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. That's traffic.

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.

I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.

Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

Bitcoin was created with security in mind. The Blockchain is Bitcoin's public ledger that records every transaction in the Bitcoin economy.

Digital assets, including bitcoin, could save small businesses substantial transaction fees and provide an added layer of security to their payment processing.

Blockchain technologies will change transactions in a broad way.

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred with dollars or credit card.

For the first time, companies can be their own payment processors without the cumbersome or costly aspects of traditional financial settlement options. Tokens offer a much lower barrier for processing end-to-end transactions inside a given market.

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

The story of Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' - tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital - is a parable (again almost too perfect) for the switch from the fragility of analogue to the infinite replicability of digital.

If I can really sustain myself and become a powerful entity on the internet, it'll transfer into real life. So right now I'm putting everything into the net.