This document contains a collection of quotes and passages on various topics related to technology and its impact on information, knowledge, and society. Several passages discuss how technology can both enable fun but also drown people in too much information, driving out real knowledge. The document advocates moving slowly to bend technology to humanity's needs. It concludes by suggesting leveraging networks and starting change gradually.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
1. After all is said and done,
more is said than done.
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13:53:09, Tue Oct 9, 2012
2. “ Technology is so
much fun but we can
drown in our
technology. The fog of
information can drive
out knowledge. ”
—Daniel J. Boorstin
3. It seems the world is divided into good and bad
people.the good ones sleep better were as the bad
ones seem to enjoy the waking hours much better
· What enables this process is the information-network,
the habitat for information.
· Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our
technology. The fog of information can drive out
knowledge.
· Presently, Japan's copyright law makes an exception in
the case of downloads for personal use.
· This feedback loop presents itself through the common
linguistic associations and metaphors that have
emerged in the western world.
4. Life is so short we must move very slowly.
Morph user-centric vortals
5. Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
· I think there are a lot of more or less unfortunate things
coming together on this.
· Being a legitimate and authorized user enables
engagement, conversation, relevance, personalization,
meaning.
· The bottom line: controlling the flow of digital files is
'Mission Impossible'.
· The idea of technology, however, is something far more
nuanced and abstract.
6. “ Technology is making
gestures precise and
brutal, and with them
men. ”
—Theodor Adorno
7. A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part.
· The latter, in the digital age, is post-industrial and
automated.
· The objective of the DML is to create a new, vast, and
constantly replenishing 'pool of money' for music,
· No one knows, but there's been little good news in these
areas for Hollywood.
· Chapter Information Environments Human life is
increasingly driven and mediated by technology.
8. In conclusion
· Transform viral synergies
· Enable seamless synergies
· Leverage scalable network effects
· and remember: To bend a bamboo, start when it is a
shoot.
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