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" It's almost impossible to totally eliminate terrible content in a huge open network. "
Steven Levy
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" With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it. "
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" As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google. "
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" 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. "
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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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" We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. "
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" Internet-centric companies have already begun changing the rules with binge-watching, flexible running times, fewer commercials, and crowd-sourced content. The brainpower - and just plain power - of the most valued tech firms will change things even more. "
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" The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function. "
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" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "
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" My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel. "
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" Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force. "
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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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" 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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" As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery. "
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" 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. "
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Way
Over
" Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly. "
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Electric
Even
Great
" Our chips keep getting faster, and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the day - or worse, by mid-afternoon - those power meters on our screens inevitably turn to red. "
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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
" Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method. "
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Method
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" 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
Enough
Entertainment
" 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
" Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place - Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan - with the right device. The iPhone. "
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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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" 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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" The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content. "
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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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Surround
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" Is it possible for Apple or anyone else to rule in the mobile realm the way Microsoft did on the desktop? The way to do this is to go mass-market with a device that can do anything the others can do. "
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" Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself. He got it. "
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Way
" Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds. "
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Google
Within
" Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces. "
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