#gita

«Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. “Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because it plays all my CDs. But nobody buys music in the stores any more! Even I don’t pay for music, and I’m rich! I’m carrying a zombie in my purse!” “Well, yes, that platform is obsolete now, but a new business model will arise for music.” “No it won’t! That’s a lie! Nobody will ever pay! The music business is the walking dead! Don’t lie to me.” Eliza stuffed her doomed device back in her furry purse. Gavin rubbed his chin. “Your Digital Native generation really has some issues.”» ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#future #music #business

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice. ↗

— Dan Rather

#digital #even #i #pretend

What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated. ↗

— Michael Gorman

#library-in-the-digital-age #library-science #age

He who has let go of hatred who treats all beings with kindness and compassion, who is always serene, unmoved by pain or pleasure, free of the "I" and "mine," self-controlled, firm and patient, his whole mind focused on me --- that is the man I love best. ↗

— Anonymous

#stephen-mitchell #love

Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#community #contribution #difference #drift #happiness

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#inspirational #rabindranath-tagore #inspirational

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#audiences #business #child #digital #enthusiast

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show. ↗

— David Brenner

#brand #digital #evolution #get #integrated

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #change #commonplace #communications #concern

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right. ↗

— Sherry Turkle

#relationships #sociology #technology #age