Quotes About Digital

Lighter laptops followed (our first one had a 10mb hard disk; today one of our laptops, at about one-third of the weight, has flash storage of 1 terabyte—100,000 times larger in thirty years).

As late as 2000, Cukier and Mayer-Schönberger note, only 25 per cent of the world's stored information was in a digital form. Today that proportion is 98 per cent.5

Facebook page had more friends than Ashton

Amazon's "Mechanical Turk

personal digital assistants (PDAs)

You two. You can do a cleaning spell. One slurred, But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over. Nix's eyes went wide. Do it, or the photos go live! The witch shook her fist to the sky, crying, Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!

Cadeon, are you even listening to me?" "What? Yeah, was just thinking about…how http always turns to https when I carry out a transaction." "Exactly!" Good save.

nix: Do it, or the pictures go live! Witch shakes her fist at the sky, crying, Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!

AOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Web. We don't get no respect.

The removal of the physical constraints on effective information production has made human creativity and the economics of information itself the core structuring facts in the new networked information economy.

What is the relationship between technology (e.g., TV, computers, the Internet, tablets) and teachers?

At present, people are happy to give away their most valuable asset—their personal data—in exchange for free email services and funny cat videos. It's a bit like African and Native American tribes who unwittingly sold entire countries to European imperialists in exchange for colorful beads and cheap trinkets.

In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat videos. From

Big Data algorithms might create digital dictatorships in which all power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite while most people suffer not from exploitation, but from something far worse – irrelevance.

In the heyday of European imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat videos.

data will eclipse both land and machinery as the most important asset, and politics will be a struggle to control the flow of data.

Notwithstanding the danger of mass unemployment, what we should worry about even more is the shift in authority from humans to algorithms, which might destroy any remaining faith in the liberal story and open the way to the rise of digital dictatorships.

In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty first century, censorship works by blocking the flow of information.

Democracy in its present form cannot survive the merger of biotech and infotech. Either democracy will successfully reinvent itself in a radically new form or humans will come to live in "digital dictatorships.

Just think of the way that within a mere two decades, billions of people have come to entrust the Google search algorithm with one of the most important tasks of all: searching for relevant and trustworthy information. We no longer search for information. Instead, we google.

Did you ever vote about the internet?

The sum total of money in the world is about $60 trillion, yet the sum total of coins and banknotes is less than $6 trillion.7 More than 90 per cent of all money – more than $50 trillion appearing in our accounts – exists only on computer servers.

We no longer search for information. Instead, we google.

Once Google, Facebook and other algorithms become all-knowing oracles, they may well evolve into agents and ultimately into sovereigns