Technology
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- Improving the Internet is just one means by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection — without pretending that access itself is such a right.
- Technology is a bit like clothing. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a single item of clothing (a well-tailored pelt or loincloth) would probably suffice. Clothing did one thing, provide cover. Tech has become no different. Tens of years ago, a PC was our primary, if not sole, piece of “technology.” But now we have smartphones, and tablets, and e-book readers, and Internet TV boxes and gaming consoles.
- What the world needed, and it didn't have, was a phone that had the capabilities of a computer. Apple designed an entirely new product—a phone, a Web browser, and a music player. It was a phone design that the world had never seen. Physical keyboards would become a thing of the past. It required an entirely new hardware system. It required an entirely new user interface. That interface had to become completely intuitive.
- We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.
- As we embrace new technology that does everything but kiss us on the mouth, we risk cutting ourselves off from human interaction.
- Technology is a bit like clothing. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a single item of clothing (a well-tailored pelt or loincloth) would probably suffice. Clothing did one thing, provide cover. Tech has become no different. Tens of years ago, a PC was our primary, if not sole, piece of "technology." But now we have smartphones, and tablets, and e-book readers, and Internet TV boxes and gaming consoles.
- Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.