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“I worry about a society that can remember everything.”

Quote by Paul Saffo

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Paul Saffo is a renowned futurist and professor, born in 1954. He holds a professorship at Stanford University, focusing on technology trends and future research. Saffo is known for his profound insights into technological change and his predictions of future trends. more

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“The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls out on paper that got easily yellowed and lost. The danger is that many of your friends (nodding at the students) are putting intimate ideas in cyberspace journals. So when today's 15-year-old is 40, some friend is going to drag out all of that idiotic stuff at their class reunion.”

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“The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.”

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“I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home movies. We have videotapes now and e-mails. When it's going to get interesting is in massively multiplayer online games where you have avatars (online personas). You could actually create an avatar that's semi-autonomous. It could do things for you while you get off the game to run the rest of your life.”

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“I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.”

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“I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your social experiences and extends a life even if you're no longer in the game or you are no longer alive.”

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“We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."”

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“Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.”

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“There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens to be cloaked in religion, but these are people saying enough is enough. It's happened again and again through history. The good news is that modernism has always won.”

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“It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.”

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“We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.”

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