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" Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist. "

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" Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope. "

Science Fiction

" Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly. "

" Twitter provides a platform that allows anyone on the planet - from a political activist in the Middle East to an intemperate golfer in the White House - to broadcast his or her thoughts. "

" We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in. "

" Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it. "

" No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor. "

Virtual Reality

" Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare. "

" Though the first iPhone was expensive, it was such a refreshing new product that early users flocked to it. "

" Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world. "

" This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft. "

" When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread. "

" I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. "

" Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed? "

" To political technocrats, 2008 marks the maturation of 'microtargeting' - a technique that, if things are as close in November as expected, may well affect who takes the White House. "

" As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google. "

" As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery. "

" Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city. "

" Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method. "

Scientific Method

" I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere. "

" Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee. "

" Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor plumbing. "

" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "

" We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. "

" The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality. "

" What made the days leading up to the iPhone launch even crazier was that Apple had pulled off the greatest disappearing act in tech promotion history. In January 2007, Jobs announced the long-awaited iPhone. But somewhere that winter, the iPhone vanished. "

" In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year. "

" Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress. "

" The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. "

Industrial Revolution

" Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces. "

" Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick. "