“In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.” ShouldMindImportantEndsDecisionCreativityTechnologyPolicyHappeningsPrivacyDiscouragedFilesCopyrightMaking DecisionsCollisionBe Encouraged Author:Edward Felten
“Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.” PeopleDoneUsedProcessTechnologyHappeningsImpactLocalsUsed To BeOur SocietyRobots Author:Jose Padilha
“Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.” TechnologyConversationHappeningsMarketingWithout You Author:Charlene Li
“We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time.” ThinkingYearsEndsTechnologyNewsHappeningsFeminineBalancedReignPatriarchyGood News Author:Leonard Shlain
“I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.” ThinkingWorldUsedBitsQualityTechnologyWonderfulQuietHappeningsReflectionAssumingThings HappenNoiseFasterWho We AreOppositionTrendsWonderful ThingsQuality Of LifeDisturbedNew TechnologyQuiet Reflection Author:Alan Lightman
“I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.” ThinkingSometimesHandsTechnologyHappenedEmotionalHappeningsSittingAlbumsStaringGenesBedroomConvenienceRottenTangibleLennonJohnny Rotten Author:Dave Grohl
“I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.” PeopleYearsHumansKindStillsHappensRunningFightingHuman BeingsFictionTechnologyPsychologyEffectsChangedHappeningsAreasDown AndScience FictionIncrediblesStartingThings HappenCheatingJealousRaysBeamLasers Author:Leslie Nielsen
“The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.” PeopleBookRealityCommunityLeadershipTechnologyGenerationsMediaIndustryEvolutionInternetHappeningsCapitalismStrategyPropertyIndividualitySocial MediaComplainingSellingIdeologyConsumerismFree MarketAmazon Author:Jeff Bezos
“There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.” HumansLongTechnologyDoubtDependsReturnComputerSurvivalHappeningsIntellectArguingNo DoubtLong AgoIdle Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky
“It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.” ImportantTechnologyHappeningsOrganizationNotesPartnersStrategicStewardsConvergence Author:Stephen Gillett
“There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.” FirstsHas BeensTwoLastsOpinionCreativityTechnologyEvolutionAmountEqualHappeningsMeetingsDecadesTwo ThingsRemarkableUnbelievableIntersectionsPioneering Author:Kevin Spacey
“I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.” PeopleNeedsGivingShouldRealReasonPlayUseShowsSuccessReadingBusinessTechnologyReaderInternetHappeningsVideoHanging OutWeekendBeing RealBlogsHeadlinesClicksSensational Author:Fred Wilson
“There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.” MovingAbilityTechnologyMinesHappeningsMoving ForwardAdvancementMiningMethane Author:Morgan Spurlock
“We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is, and that if it's vulnerable, then their business is, too, and so you see a beefing up of encryption technologies. At the same time, no programs have been dismantled at the governmental level, despite international pressure.” IfsHas BeensBigsLevelsCompanyTechnologyHappeningsProgramPressureInternationalCustomersDespiteVulnerableDataApplesGoogleBig CompaniesEncryption Author:Laura Poitras
“Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.” HumansHappensBitsTermConsciousnessTalkingTechnologyKnowingHonestHappeningsActiveBeing HonestFar AwayHuman Consciousness Author:Johnny Depp
“I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.” IfsChildrenLongDiesBornViewsTechnologyLong TimeHappeningsSorryInstantI'm SorryHaving Children Author:Steve Jobs
“Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the paint on our walls, and even our bike paths are being invented all the time. Technology is moving forward, but it needs to be moving forward faster.” WayNeedsMovingEnergyTechnologyPathWindHugeWallHappeningsWindowCleanPaintMoving ForwardFasterNew WaysBikeClean Energy Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.” PeopleIfsFeelsStillsFeelingsHateTechnologyInvolvedHappeningsFollowing Author:Chuck Klosterman
“There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.” PeopleWayWantBigsEyeSocialCausesTechnologyCommunicationHappeningsBuiltHarmReactionsThreatenedScenariosSurgeonsArteries Author:Howard Rheingold
“You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.” GovernmentTechnologyDangerousHappeningsCarefulBe CarefulInsidious Author:Nat Hentoff
“It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.” TryingYearsEnoughBigsFormUsedFightingProcessRealizingHalfTechnologySecurityDangerComfortableHappeningsToolsBoxesTerrorismWarfareNational SecurityCiaDetachedPentagon Author:Barack Obama
“Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.” LongMomentsGamesTermTechnologyStudyPlansTalentModelsHappeningsBuiltConstantIceDataLong TermHockeyEfficientPredictionsWayneGame PlanGretzky Author:Kevin Maney
“The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.” YearsRealUseKidsUsedStuffDifferencesTechnologyGenerationsBrotherHappeningsUsed To BeCompression Author:Paul Saffo
“I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.” ThinkingWorldYearsMindArtMadeMatterLastsCoursesTechnologyDevelopmentHappeningsArt IsToolsImprovementPhenomenonDiscernmentInterfacesMind And Matter Author:Vik Muniz