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's this vast, bland wasteland of vulgar people and trivial ideas and pictures of half-naked starlets. But despite all the uncertainty, has there ever been a more fascinating moment to be alive?
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… - Paul Saffo
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…
- Paul Saffo
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… - Paul Saffo
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…
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance. - Paul Saffo
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
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… - Paul Saffo
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…
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… - Paul Saffo
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…
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… - Paul Saffo
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…
We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures. - Paul Saffo
We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and… - Paul Saffo
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and…
I worry about a society that can remember everything. - Paul Saffo
I worry about a society that can remember everything.
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