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"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
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"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."
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"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."
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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
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"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should."
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"Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with."
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"The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept."
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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."
Work
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
Time
"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."
Decision-Making
"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."
Money
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
Work
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
Power
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
Nation
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
Wealth
"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."
Fact
"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
Power
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