Quotes about "Technology & Digital Life"

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium. ”

Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts. ”

I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence. ”

Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected. ”

No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities. ”

It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided. ”

Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed. ”

We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there. ”

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use. ”

I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice. ”