Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.
The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.
Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.
We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.
Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
I only use a Chromebook now. I never thought I could do that, but I love it.
The PC is becoming a truck. Everybody is using a tablet and a phone.
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.
Earlier we used to play with snakes, but now we play with mouse. Through IT, India's youth has surprised the entire World!
Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying 'What's under the hood' will increasingly refer to computing, not horsepower.
When I was growing up, I could tell you everything about the three radio stations in Nashville. My 12- and 14-year-olds can't tell me one radio station here but can tell me three on Sirius.
The social network will be the new production line.
The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'
