Occupation: Professor Birth: 1954
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't cyberspace. It's cyberbia. It….
I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get." T….
This new world of personal media - the Web, the Internet and et cetera - not only delivers the world to your living rooms, but everywhere. And we get….
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on t….
It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars of Germany in the 1480s….
It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the option….
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and….
We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures..
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance..
I worry about a society that can remember everything..
Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, c….
The arrival of television established a mass-media order that dominated the last 50 years. This is a personal media revolution. The distinction betwe….
I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your soc….
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box..
The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can als….
As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now there is so much informati….
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 down the h….
I think companies over the last 10 years have done a very bad job of explaining to their employees what the intrinsic risks are. All I know is, if yo….
The best way to let people go is to let them know when they're hired that it's an uncertain environment and that their job is always at risk and even….
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….
Every new thing upsets people. We all know someone that has a teenage kid who sits in the room and the television is on, their iPod is on, they have ….