Quotes About Digital

Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.

Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Content marketing is one of the most effective ways to promote your business online - but only when it's done right.

What I love about the 'State of Syn' concept is that, while it's exploring science fiction, it's also trying to explore the future of film and television and the Internet, just in the nature of how they put it together and promote it and add apps and all that kind of stuff.

Advertising has moved online, with the rise of the 'advergame.' These are compelling online games, often aimed at the under-15s, designed to promote a high-fat or high-sugar food or drink. Advergames are advertising disguised as entertainment. If they didn't work, the food and drink industry wouldn't be investing in them.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once.

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.

For me, the most important and distinguishing property of new media is interactivity. But how many people can actually create interactive games, animations, or simulations? Not very many. So, in my mind, very few people are truly literate with new media.

More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.

The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak.

The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.

The iPad's all about proprietary apps that are supposed to be amazing on the bigger screen.

It's fashionable to use terms like 'sales funnels' to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the funnel design is very appropriate for the digital world, but despite all the prose written on sales funnels and the like, my question is still the same - when do you close your sales, and how long does that take?

The rights that people have offline must also be protected online.

All the new data, applications, and e-commerce that are created have to be managed and protected. Additionally, when there is a new application, the old application is still there, and has to be protected.

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Strong copyright protection is not only compatible with future digital business models: it is an essential pre-condition of their success.