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" Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.' "

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" I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children. "

Jeff Lemire

Technology

Relationship

Son

" Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. "

" Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. "

" No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment. "

" I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil. "

" I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless. "

" I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful. "

Brenda Laurel

Looking

Computers

" As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. "

" Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on. "

Tom Hodgkinson

iPad

Teenagers

" The internet is not for sissies. "

" In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators. "

" I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. "

" The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at. "

" We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain. "

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Computers

Voice

Time

" No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'. "

" The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. "

" Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing. "

" Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. "

" 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. "

" Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. "

" That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. "

" Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. "

Jean Rostand

Why

Computers

" Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. "

" I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world. "

" Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris. "

" With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. "

" I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want. "

Pat Cadigan

Sick

Oil

" You can't trust the internet. "

" We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability. "

" People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware. "