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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in read more
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify read more
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
