Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
We expect more from technology and less from each other.
There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.
The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.
Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.
I care about waking up to the true issues of the 21st century: inequality, diversity, and the impact of tech.
I want people to understand how the tech world changes my world.
I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.
We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched.
I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.
I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it's leading to happen.
Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.
One day the virtual world might win over the real world.
If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.
At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.
Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?
