Quotes About Digital

Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an "ecosystem of interruption technologies,

the computer is never a neutral tool. It influences, for better or worse, the way a person works and thinks.

But as the web matured during the late 1990s, the dreams of a digital awakening went unfulfilled. The net turned out to be more about commerce than consciousness, more mall than commune. And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed.

The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command. I had to do all my editing on-screen. In using the word processor, I had become something of a word processor myself.

The results also reinforce something that Nielsen wrote in 1997 after his first study of online reading. "How do users read on the web?" he asked then. His succinct answer: "They don't.

When a newspaper moves online, the bundle falls apart.

As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The

The Web had turned out to be less the new home of Mind than the new home of Business. The

Bruce Friedman,

information is a commodity that can be processed by a machine.

our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.

As we've entered the computer age, however, our talent for connecting with other minds has had an unintended consequence.

The strip-mining of "relevant content" replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT

we are "training our brains to pay attention to the crap.

In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.

the amount of information a communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn, our minds take it in.

la Red atrae nuestra atención sólo para dispersarla.

The Net's interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Generation C (people born after 1990) as connected, communicating, content-centric, computerized, community-oriented and always clicking.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.