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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" After a few days with the iPhone X, I can begin to make out its themes. It's a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where it's just there - a phone that's 'all screen,' one that turns on simply by seeing you, one that removes the mechanics of buttons and charging cables. "

" 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. "

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

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

Science Fiction

" Normally, my digital peregrinations take me to destinations like Facebook, YouTube, and boingboing.net. "

" Fast, cheap, abundant broadband is a fantastic economic accelerator, enabling breakout businesses and kick-starting new industries. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's plenty to admire in the iPhone X straight from the unboxing. The biggest change stares you in the face: that screen, that screen. "

" 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. "

" It's almost impossible to totally eliminate terrible content in a huge open network. "

" 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. "

" Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you're 19, you don't know what can't be done. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Industrial Revolution

" Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force. "