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" Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds. "
Steven Levy
Humanity
Google
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" Every year, I come to TED prepared to roll my eyes a lot at the beginning, but knowing that at some point in the intellectual marathon, my brain will buckle to the cascade of ideas and bend to the painstakingly rehearsed presentations. "
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" The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. "
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" As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google. "
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" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "
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" The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art. "
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" The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight. "
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" 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. "
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" The rush into scripted video by tech giants is going to accelerate an evolution of entertainment that's already underway. We're already moving away from the idea that drama is a 60-minute exercise with four bathroom breaks. "
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" For many years, when people described how the Internet worked - whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there - they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West. "
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" 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. "
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" Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world. "
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World
Will
" Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it. "
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Build
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AI
" Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force. "
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" Normally, my digital peregrinations take me to destinations like Facebook, YouTube, and boingboing.net. "
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Me
Digital
Facebook
" Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second. "
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College
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" 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. "
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Think
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" Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces. "
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Market
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Through
" How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber. "
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You
Wild
Product
" 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. "
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History
Fall
Year
" 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. "
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" Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions. "
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" The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function. "
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" Apple's iPod success led them to believe an even bigger breakthrough was possible with the iPhone. In some respects, the iPhone hype overwhelmed even Apple. "
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" Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming. "
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" All through the 1980s, Apple kept its prices high. There were many reasons Microsoft's much bigger user base managed to resist moving to the GUI - but price was high among them. "
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" Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India. "
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India
Country
" No company has embraced the liberating aspects of the Internet as a 'new marketplace of ideas' more than the search giant Google. "
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Internet
" 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. "
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Become
Plumbing
Never
" 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. "
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Old
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" 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. "
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Facebook
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Launch