“Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.” HandsTodayTogetherIndividualCompanyTechnologyInformationComputerDollarsCustomersAidsChainsOperationsTiesLinksCommerceDisputesBackboneInformation TechnologyEuroSupply ChainComputer Systems Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.” TogetherScienceComputerCreatingRiversOnenessLinksSoftwareTribesNetworkingComputer Science Author:Frederick Lenz
“... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.” WantWaitingWalksPowerfulAcceptingTechnologyMastersComputerStrongerMoodLinksTelephonesCables Author:Paulo Coelho
“Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.” PeopleUniverseSpaceNumbersBrainCreativeComputerDirectConnectionsCommunicateAccessLinksPilotsLimitlessCyberspace Author:Timothy Leary
“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.” PeopleReasonHomeStageCommunicationComputerRemarkableLinksCompellingTelephonesBreakthroughBest JobPredicting The FutureCompelling Reason Author:Steve Jobs
“A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.” BodyHandsEarthTurnsIndividualInternetComputerDoctorsManagementPatientConnectedInternalsDigitalOnlineDevicesLinksOrgansHackersSmartphonesVandals Author:Charles C. Mann