Quotes About Digital

Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen.

Virtual reality is going to revolutionize the world—it's not a question of if, but when.

Already on it," he assured her. Pedophiles loved to hide digital files—say, incriminating photos—as attachments to computer games, where the file sizes were already so huge and graphic-rich that it was hard to see the piggyback. Inside stereo speakers was also a favorite spot for stashing thumb drives. In this house, given this crime scene, they couldn't afford to assume anything.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.

I fear that technology will destroy human interaction

Technology favors horrible people.

The media industry's double standard of seeking to introduce digital devices and content into schools as powerful educational tools while disputing that children learn from or are changed by entertainment media: does not square with logic.

In 1996, Eastman Kodak was a hundred-year-old powerhouse with one hundred forty thousand employees and a valuation of twenty-eight billion dollars. Yet a mere sixteen years later, the company was filing for bankruptcy, a T. Rex dinosaur that had failed to fathom the disruptive power and game-changing impact of the digital photography revolution.

could cite endless studies, but let me finish by quoting Nicholas Carr. His book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, came out back in 2011.

unless you have the tech to recognize their quantum signatures

We used to spend quality time with a few people. Actually with them—physically. For hours on end. Now we spend time interacting with hundreds of people, but on our phones, or sitting in a chair all alone facing a computer screen.

Knight wasn't lying," whispered Wexler. "You can type inside a Google search bar, and download files, but can't send anything else through cyberspace, including passwords.

Computers, algorithms, the Internet—they're not just the biggest component of our lives and economy. They've become our lives and economy.

In the West, the phone had become a drug even more addictive than opioids. In a culture becoming ever more secular,

My four-year-old niece has had a kids touchscreen tablet since she was old enough to drool. While I was there, I handed her a kids magazine. She had no idea what to do with it. She kept swiping the cover with her finger to try to scroll through additional pages. There was a part she wanted to see bigger, so she tried to touch it and splay out her fingertips to enlarge it.

Instead, she had revealed the existence of what everyone else recognized as the perfect skeleton key, able to unlock every digital door in existence.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.

an economic operating system designed by thirteenth-century Moorish accountants looking for a way to preserve the aristocracy of Europe has worked as promised. It turned the marketplace into one giant debtors' prison. It is not only unfit for the needs of a twenty-first-century digital society; central currency is the core mechanism of the growth trap.