“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.” MenDoeSaidI CanDoneProblemRememberYoungUsedNamesStuffCollegeKeysConversationComputerCompetitionFingersYoung ManExtensionsMechanicElectronicsPasswords Author:William Shatner
“The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.” AmericaLanguageInfluenceInternetConversationComputerProportionOverwhelmingChatter Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.” NeedsCausesModernCenturySkillsConversationComputerPhonesCellsGiantsTransformedImaginary20th CenturyCourtesyNarcissisticCell PhoneUrgencyBreakdownPhonyGadgetsCocoonsAtrophyFaxEscalation Author:Mary Schmich
“My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.” DifferentRealCreativeEventsInformationConversationComputerCuriosityReal Conversation Author:Brian Grazer
“It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, you get to know a lot about it, but typically, you can't express yourself well or have an interesting conversation with it.” KnowsWellsImportantAbilityInterestingStudyConversationComputerSettingSettingsAcademicExpress YourselfInteresting Conversation Author:Seymour Papert
“I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.” KnowsWorldYearsIdeasDifferentAbleFiveInformationConversationComputerProjectsYears AgoHeyFasterFive YearsHey YouSummaryNew Information Author:Edward Boyden
“As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.” DifferentResultsBrainModernStrangeBattleConversationBehaviorComputerAccomplishArguingLockedMultitudesCompetingOngoingHarborsFeatsFactionsOutputWaltCursing Author:David Eagleman