“So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.” WayAbleFormRecordsPaperComputerConnectionsStructureMediums Author:Ted Nelson
“I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?” FeelsWritingMadeRealLightWaitingPaperComputerLettersConnectionsMachinesSpeedPensAversionWaiting For YouHumming Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.” ChildrenUseWallMonthsInternetComputerProjectsConnectionsInspiredHolesSlumsDelhiInternet Connection Author:Sugata Mitra
“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.” NeedsHumansRealBrainDangerComputerDirectConnectionsAddOppositionHuman IntelligenceGenetic Engineering Author:Stephen Hawking
“The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.” HumansRealHardMightWould BeAbleRomanceSexBrainMinutesTelevisionComputerConnectionsPreparingTreadmillsHuman Connection Author:Marianne Williamson
“I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanReasonHandsFictionCasesTechnologyImagineComputerConnectionsBlindGutsNonfictionTypewritersFeels RightRejectingWriting Nonfiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.” TechnologyComputerConnectionsMachinesPhonesCellsCell PhoneLaptopsServer Author:Kevin Kelly
“I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.” WorldLooksUseModernCenturyInternetComputerConnectionsModern WorldCellphone17th Century Author:Iris Apfel
“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.” WorldTryingKindUseFilmModernOffersComputerPhotographyConnectionsInstrumentsExtraordinaryContactModern WorldPhotography And Film Author:Leon Golub
“Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated world. This is one lesson we can learn from photographs, and especially from those of the last 25 years: images exist not to be believed, but to be interrogated.” WorldYearsLittlesRealityTodayLastsLessonsDegreesComputerConnectionsCamerasPhotographRepresentation Author:Andy Grundberg
“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
“I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.” PeopleThinkingMomentsTalkingStepsTakenComputerLosingConnectionsFencePessimisticDown The RoadAlready Taken Author:Howard Rheingold
“Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?” MenTwoSoulFactsMotherWonderIdentityHusbandComputerConnectionsSanityTransient Book:Children of the Mind Source: Children of the Mind
“You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayTryingShowsHomeSeemsStarsSecretTvsComputerLonelyConnectionsMagazinesAround The WorldInstantTelephonesMovie StarPublishJacobTalk ShowsSo LonelyFax Book:Plain Truth Source: Plain Truth
“All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.” NeedsBusinessCreativityEconomyComputerConnectionsSocial MediaSparksInitiativeSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkSocial Media MarketingDigital Media Book:Wikinomics Source: Wikinomics