The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket. — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff.… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls out… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
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).… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
Never mistake a clearer view for a short distance just because the technology looks like it's about to arrive in the very near future.… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded, — Paul Saffo Copy Share
Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be doing differently,… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950. — Paul Saffo Copy Share
I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are blowing right… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though… — Paul Saffo Copy Share
