David Gerrold Quotes

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Ebooks had to happen.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

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.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

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.

Without having to ask anyone's permission, innovators everywhere used the Internet's open platform to start companies that have transformed how billions of people live and work.

People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

I am so inspired by new media.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

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.

We do live in this age of new media.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

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.