Quotes About Digital

the microchip, the computer, and the internet. When these three innovations were combined, the digital revolution was born.

Techno-anarcho-terrorism

Whenever I find myself somehow fooled into doing one of these talks, it's on the grounds that some confused soul thinks that I will talk about the digital world and the future. What always happens is that I rant for an unspecified length of time about obscure history and fringe beliefs. So you need to understand that you are now trapped in this room with me and I've already been paid. This is my cunning plan.

the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.

Consider this, though. If I've seen it on the Internet, is it still underground? 'Underground' always connoted something hidden, something difficult to see and find. Something underneath the surface of things, yes? But if it's on the Internet—and I do praise the Lord that I lived long enough to see such a wondrous thing—it cannot possibly be underground.

CHAPTER 12 Mom and Dad Boot Up

The strangers we encounter on the web are abstractions, not a physical presence—we are interfacing with them, not interacting.

That rare person who has 1,073,741,824 bytes of memory will say, "I've got a gig (and I'm not talking music).

a digital design engineer, you would spend long hours going through the TTL Data Book familiarizing yourself with the types of TTL chips that were available. Once you knew all your tools, you could actually build the computer I showed in Chapter 17 out of TTL chips. Wiring the chips together is a lot easier than wiring individual transistors

Transistors enable logic gates; logic gates enable flip-flops; and flip-flops enable many mathematical, storage, and retrieval functions in digital computing.

A bad idea, a wrong piece of information, a digital brain-altering virus can spread at the speed of light through the internet and quickly find a home among a dispersed but digitally interconnected group of true believers. This group acts as a reservoir for the bad idea, allowing it to gather strength and reinfect people; as the group grows, the belief, no matter how crazy, becomes more and more solidly established among the faithful.

we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

Nowadays, people don't fall in love. They swipe left and right…

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

I don't think that memes what you think it memes.

It's so strange to think that before Facebook all this nonsense just stayed in people's heads.

Kids growing up in today's generation are constantly documenting their experience. It's different—how does that change their sense of self when everything becomes a story that you are telling?

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

Face-to-face, real-time connection to others feels fraught and awkward compared to the safe distance of digital communication. We maintain intimate virtual contact with strangers but seem increasingly isolated from our closest friends and family members.

Can I step away from this digital maw? Will my voice still matter if no one can hear it?

It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer.

In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?