#technology

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#along #came #cell #cell phones #compression

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. ↗

— John Callahan

#between #bookstores #both #caught #competing

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#customers #deregulation #environment #growth #informed

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#confined #days #defense #department #did

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? ↗

— Tom Clancy

#bad #communications #ever #happier #how

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know? ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#know #many #musicians #point #technology

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. ↗

— Scott Cook

#day #first #internet #minutes #revolution

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present. ↗

— Scott Cook

#catalyst #forces #fundamental #fundamental forces #just

Technology favors horrible people. ↗