#gita

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. ↗

— John Sununu

#been #business #digital #disrupted #distribution

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#clearly #company #corp #depend #digital

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#digital-age #ebooks #ereaders #fiction #kindle

I love books. I’m giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think there’s something so brilliant about them. The digitisation trend is the future but people will still want the feel and smell of real books. ↗

— Elizabeth Amisu

#ebooks #future #migmag #sacerdos #age

That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the old magic of light-sensitive emulsions was waning, that to the rising generation the enchantment lay in a techne of images without substance, images that could flash through the ether without residing anywhere, that could be sucked into a machine and emerge from it doctored, untrue. He gave up recording the world in photographs then, and transferred his energies to saving the past. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#illusion #photography #age

Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow. ↗

— Marcia Conner

#documentation #knowledge-management #learning #reflection #social-media

This is my logo for Art and Books ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#artist #books #clever-logo #clever-logos #digital-art

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up. ↗

— Amelia Gray

#alienation #dating #digital-age #isolation #age

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#death #destruction #nuclear-weapons #death

Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu! ↗

— Gemini Adams

#facebook #flu #humor #humor-books #social-media