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The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of read more
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a read more
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
What hath God wrought?
What hath God wrought?
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They read more
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, read more
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
