“The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.” StillsLightEarthImpossiblePossibilityThousandComputerFlowToolsWavePatternsRevelationsExplorationCaptureFrontiersRipeTelescopesSymmetryMicroscopesElementals Author:John Paul Caponigro
“Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.” SchoolStrongCreativityComputerLibraryWaveLiteracyReservationsUndercut Author:Clifford Stoll
“When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.” DifferentFeelingsBodyHappensSoundComputerHappeningsWaveVinylPhysiologyDifferent FeelingsSound Waves Author:Beck
“There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.” PeopleDifferentCareComputerWaveTrackCompareHookVinylHook Up Author:Beck
“'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.” YearsAmericaWaitingComputerWaveScreensOnlineAfternoonFlagsStillnessMailAustralianIconsWhistlingPostmanComputer ScreenMailboxes Author:Geraldine Brooks