Quotes about "Technology & Digital Life"

It is kind of weird to walk into a Starbucks and have somebody know your name. But normal-day life really hasn't changed that much. There's just a lot more eyes on you on social media. ”

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes. ”

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet. ”

College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth. ”

If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to. ”

People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world. ”

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. ”

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. ”

When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society. ”

The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on the Internet. ”