Quotes About Digital

Jim pulls out his iPhone and uses a digital compass to find the direction

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Cyber space is a coffin of illusion.

It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot poodle down the street.

The family had computers all over the house.

If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big.

They describe the feeling of being online as a kind of anesthesia that eases the pain of everyday life.

Piracy is the new radio.

The sense of incredible realism that many people experience when interacting in virtual worlds with virtual people is known as presence.

The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas.

In a talk at a recent Phi Beta Kappa meeting, Duke University professor Katherine Hayles confessed, "I can't get my students to read whole books anymore."10 Hayles teaches English; the students she's talking about are students of literature.

A polemicist might put it more pointedly: The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

never has there been a medium that, like the Net, has been programmed to so widely scatter our attention and to do it so insistently.

Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even all three of the devices simultaneously.

When we're online, we're often oblivious to everything else going on around us. The real world recedes as we process the flood of symbols and stimuli coming through our devices.

The great library that Google is rushing to create shouldn't be confused with the libraries we've known up until now. It's not a library of books. It's a library of snippets.

The Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.

As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.

when you add verbiage to a page, you can assume that customers will read 18% of it.

How do users read on the web?" he asked then. His succinct answer: "They don't."38

Sitting down and going through a book from cover to cover doesn't make sense," he says. "It's not a good use of my time, as I can get all the information I need faster through the Web." As soon as you learn to be "a skilled hunter" online, he argues, books become superfluous.

The connection between doing and knowing is breaking down.

We cannot go back to the lost oral world, any more than we can turn the clock back to a time before the clock existed. 'Writing and print and the computer,' writes Walter Ong, 'are all ways of technologizing the word'; and once technologized, the word cannot be de-technologized.

When we speak with emoji, we're speaking a language that machines can understand.