Internet Quotes by Paul Saffo

8 Internet quotes by Paul Saffo

Eight brief lines from Paul Saffo turn to the Internet, offering a concise, forward‑looking perspective on how technology evolves and impacts society.

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Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world…

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People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way…

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The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will…

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The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to…

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Google was the right set of people at the right time, and they ended up doing the right set of things. It's…

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This new world of personal media - the Web, the Internet and et cetera - not only delivers the world to your…

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I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they…

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The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be…

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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,…

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Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

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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…

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