Philip Roth Quotes

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

So much of the world is digital.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.