“The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“Technology has made it far too easy for people to be lazy communicators, to be easily distant, to not be present and show up in the ways that require work, and being able to be held accountable when you fail to be and do better as a human.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Technology mirrors and magnifies the good, bad, and ugly of everyday life.”— Miranda Katz, wired.com
“Media ecology, more than any other tradition, provides a more robust manifestation of what so many social constructionist scholars had been seeking. We might call it, socio-historical constructionism with teeth. Clearly, it is one thing to sweepingly proclaim that people socially construct 'reality'…”— Corey Anton, mdpi.com
“Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.”— Antoni Gaudí, amazon.com
“I want China to stop appropriating our technology. China is, through forced technology transfer and through stealing our technology, but really forced technology transfer, is cutting out the beating heart of American innovation.”— Steve Bannon, npr.org
“Every extension of mankind, especially technological extensions, has the effect of amputating or modifying some other extension[…] The extension of a technology like the automobile ‘amputates’ the need for a highly developed walking culture, which in turn causes cities and countries to develop in di…”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
““We’ve really screwed up. There’s been this desire from the industry to be as fast as possible and secure at the same time. Spectre shows that you cannot have both. This will be a festering problem over hardware life cycles. It’s not going to change tomorrow or the day after. It’s going to take a wh…”— Paul Kocher, nytimes.com
“Technology just feels so demanding, all the time. And as people have spent more time interacting with digital media, they spend less time interacting with each other face-to-face.”— Jean Twenge, washingtonpost.com
“It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“Our research indicates that employing enhanced collaboration technologies in product development can have a significant impact on a company's ability to innovate and meet their product development targets. The real world stories presented at the ITS events offered excellent examples of how leading m…”— Jim Brown, successories.com
“Smartphones have been around, in their current form, for about 10 years. Humankind is 200,000 years old,” Greenfield says. “Is it possible that we’ve distorted how important this technology is to our lives?”— Jamie Ducharme, Dr. David Greenfield, fortune.com
“Dr. David Ballard, head of the American Psychological Association’s Center for Organizational Excellence, agrees it’s healthy to unplug—but adds that everyone detoxes differently. Some people prefer to power down completely during their time off, while others feel less stressed if they allow themsel…”— Jamie Ducharme, fortune.com
“There’s a lot of medical evidence to suggest that we live in a hyper-elevated state of arousal and activated stress hormones due to being so accessible and ever-vigilant for electronic input.”— Dr. David Greenfield, fortune.com
“There’s a lot of medical evidence to suggest that we live in a hyper-elevated state of arousal and activated stress hormones due to being so accessible and ever-vigilant for electronic input.”— Dr. David Greenfield, fortune.com
“Every time I use an emoji I'm slightly terrified there's some meaning behind it that I'm totally unaware of.”— Susan Fowler, twitter.com