Quotes About Digital

Finally, I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.

think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

usual, he threw himself into the marketing, working with James Vincent and Duncan Milner at the ad agency (now called TBWA/ Media Arts Lab), with Lee Clow advising from a semiretired perch. The commercial they first produced was a gentle scene of a guy in faded jeans and sweatshirt reclining in a chair, looking at email, a photo album, the New York Times, books, and video on an iPad propped on his lap. There were no words, just

shaping some of the greatest technological innovations of our time." —The Washington Post "A wonderfully robust biography that not only tracks Jobs's life but also serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson's ability to shape the story as a kind

A program called SNDMSG allowed a user of a big central computer to send a message to the personal folder of another user who was sharing the same computer.

serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson's ability to shape the story as a kind of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy grail, the

The little device that finally created a connection between home computers and global networks was called a modem.

It could modulate and demodulate (hence the name) an analog signal, like that carried by a telephone circuit, in order to transmit and receive digital information.

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most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively.

The Internet and the personal computer were both born in the 1970s, but they grew up apart from one another.

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Online services such as AOL developed independently of the Internet.

The second half of the twentieth century was an information-technology era, based on the idea that all information could be encoded by binary digits—known as bits—and all logical processes could be performed by circuits with on-off switches.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee

online encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales was born in 1966

States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs

The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.

Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, "Turn on, boot up, jack in.

In 2001 Jobs had a vision: Your personal computer would serve as a "digital hub" for a variety of lifestyle devices, such as music players, video recorders, phones, and tablets. This played to Apple's strength of creating end-to-end products that were simple to use. The company was thus transformed from a high-end niche computer company to the most valuable technology company in the world.

One was how computers could be networked; the second was how object-oriented programming worked.

the true birth of the digital age, the era in which electronic devices became embedded in every aspect of our lives, occurred in Murray Hill, New Jersey, shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday, December 16, 1947.

modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject … In the end, we can't help but agree with Isaacson's assessment: "Was