Quotes About Digital

The practice of linking entire networks, rather than individual computers, came to be known as "internetworking" or

In a world where over two days of video get uploaded every minute, only that which is truly unique and unexpected can stand out in the way that [viral videos] have.

The application of Blockchain technology is rapidly becoming a core component of our infrastructure!

Quantum Encryption is essential to protect our digital assets and infrastructure from attackers.

In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening.

Byte or Get Bitten

The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day I got in...

It's not even about you. It's just what people like to do online.

Simon's insight is often reduced to "In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.

Consumers say they don't want to be tracked, but in fact they keep feeding the machine with their data, because they want to claim their benefits. This

Platforms are factories for services; services favor access over ownership. Clouds

Massive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay.

Metadata is the new wealth

Possession is not as important as it once was. Accessing is more important than ever. Pretend

The web is hyperlinked documents; the cloud is hyperlinked data.

In fact, the average person online today writes more words in a year than many professional writers of the past. This torrent is unedited, unmanaged, completely bottom up. And the attention given to this immense corpus of prosumer content is significant—it was sold to advertisers for $24 billion in 2015.

That monopoly of a persistent identity is the real engine of Facebook's remarkable success.

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years.

high-profile tech companies) are earning only an average of $3 per hour of attention—

The industrial age was driven by analog copies—exact and cheap. The information age is driven by digital copies—exact and free.

The truth is no online database will replace your newspaper," he claimed. "Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure." Stoll captured the prevailing skepticism of a digital world full of "interacting libraries, virtual communities, and electronic commerce" with one word: "baloney.

For the most part our legal system still runs on agrarian principles, where property is real. It has not caught up to the digital era. Not for lack of trying, but because it is difficult to sort out how ownership works in a realm where ownership is less important.

The cloud is the reservoir that songs escape from.

Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet and that improbable event becomes just one of hundreds of extraordinary events that we'll see or hear about today. The