Ability Quote by Howard Rheingold

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into…

— Howard Rheingold

The Japanese don't write in alphabetic writing; they write in pictographs. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is,…

— Owsley Stanley

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

The computers people have are no longer on their desks but in their hands, and that is probably the transformative feature of the technology.…

— Caterina Fake

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

— Walter F. Mondale

I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?

— Julian Treasure

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't…

— Kelly Jones

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get…

— Douglas Tompkins

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

— Matt Mills

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're…

— Lee Smith