Quotes About Digital

We have no idea in what way tomorrow's consumers will want to consumer their media.

Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.

But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.

Martin had to explain to me that if I didn't have a computer, then I wouldn't have an e-mail address. I wasn't sure whether I'd have one or not. I thought it might have come in one of those envelopes you throw away.)

Block everyone on your instant mail.

Once consumers experienced free music, they came to view music as something that was supposed to be free.

A person native to the twenty-first century can't really reconcile why anyone would pay $13.25 for twelve fixed songs that could only be played on specific high-end electronics serving no other function; the majority of all recorded music can now be instantly accessed anywhere for less than $10 a month.

disaster that never occurred. In 2000, the emotional relationship to the internet was reversed from the way it is now: Those who viewed the internet as positive were the people using it the most, while those who hated the internet tended to be people using it the least.

His computer password is password.

Some people are just trash, and they find other trash and start to form a landfill. The internet makes it easier.

No kidding. Some people are just trash, and they find other trash and start to form a landfill. The internet makes it easier.

Welcome to BigMistake.com Population: untold millons

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

Ethics change with technology.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

The computer is a cool medium. . . . you can keep things crisp, refrigerated in a way.

One of the most common codes used across the planet is binary or digital code.

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

didn't usher in the Space Age; it ushered in the Digital Age. And that is as valuable a legacy as the imagined Space Age might have been. Probably more valuable.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.