Occupation: Professor Birth: 1954
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturin….
As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or ….
Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old thing more ef….
I think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is to be completely open and completel….
Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over 100 years ago, pa….
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….
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..
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….