Quotes About Digital

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

for all the valuable insights big data provides, the Web remains a curated, idealized version of who we really are.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

We have become so inundated with information that the average person in the United States now reads daily the same number of words as is found in many a novel. Unfortunately, this form of reading is rarely continuous, sustained, or concentrated; rather, the average 34 gigabytes consumed by most of us represent one spasmodic burst of activity after another.

The psychologist Howard Gardner used the MIT scholar Seymour Papert's famous description of the child's "grasshopper mind"6 to describe the spasmodic way our digital young now typically "hop from point to point, distracted from the original task.

In the first quarter of our century we daily conflate information with knowledge and knowledge with wisdom—with the resulting diminution of all three.

Num meio que nos defronta continuamente com um excesso de informações, a grande tentação de muitos é se retirar para depósitos conhecidos de informações facilmente digeríveis, menos densas, intelectualmente menos exigentes. A ilusão de estarmos informados por um dilúvio diário de informações dimensionadas eletronicamente para o olho pode dificultar uma análise crítica de nossas realidades complexas.

He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends.

Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

there has never been such a plethora of advice on looking good. We are constantly bombarded with diet books,.. and there are ever more digital apps and filters to enhance what the products can't.

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have one foot in the great digital nowhere.

quanto mais as pessoas estavam ligadas às redes sociais, mais solitária a sociedade se tornava.

their friendship became just a vapour trail of sporadic Facebook and Instagram likes

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.

Check how a tweet/photo/status update is going down (and keep checking). Want to go offline, without going offline.

On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a non-sentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.

researchers worry that heavy use of interactive media can, over time, reduce attention spans. The fear is that we grow so accustomed to frequent bursts of stimulation, we have trouble feeling satisfied in their absence.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Why buy books when you can read them online