Occupation: Author Birth: December 1, 1943
Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy..
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be ….
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the….
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry fo….
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Mo….
My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas,….
It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits..
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to….
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate..
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can ha….
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people..
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that c….
Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will sta….
Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money..
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living..
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning..
By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self..
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas..
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or othe….
I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and throug….
You can see the future best through peripheral vision..