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“Humans change themselves through technology.”

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Jaron Lanier is a writer, musician, and computer scientist. He is renowned for his pioneering work in the field of virtual reality (VR) and is recognized for his critical analysis of network culture in his book 'You Are Not a Gadget'. more

“Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.”

“The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.”

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Author:Walter Wriston

“The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Hipness is the only asset that matters.”

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Author:Paul Saffo

“Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?”

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Author:Charles Handy

“Are Your Customers saying WOW?”

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Author:Tom Peters

“It is possible to tell a customer "no", and have the customer thank you for doing it”

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Author:Phil Knight

“With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.”

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Author:Niall FitzGerald

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