Quotes About Digital

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind, A.J.

An e-reader allows these cursed creatures to enlarge the text as much as they'd like.

[I am] not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.

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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Computers for the masses, not the classes.

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Some spyware programs have ambient listening features. They can turn on the microphone of your phone without you knowing it and without leaving any record.

The idea that there were documents and recordings that couldn't be found online had never really occurred to her.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003. By 2015, 76 exabytes of data will travel across the Internet every year.

Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.

Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices at 10 billion.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003.

Embedded in digital photos is information such as the date, time, and location—yes, many cameras have GPS—of the photo's capture; generic information about the camera, lens, and settings; and an ID number of the camera itself. If you upload the photo to the web, that information often remains attached to the file.

We are social animals, and there's nothing more powerful or rewarding than communicating with other people. Digital means have become the easiest and quickest way to communicate.

Opting out just isn't a viable choice for most of us, most of the time; it violates what have become very real norms of contemporary life.

Data is the exhaust of the information age.

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM CONTINUES TO DRIVE THE INTERNET

The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It's a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.

The Internet of Things has a slight utopian tinge, but mostly it has a certain melancholy, even grim air. It's not some psychedelic exploration of the cyberspace of the digital. It's material labour, it's hardware, it's a hard slog.