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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Science Fiction

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

Scientific Method

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Industrial Revolution

" 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. "

" No company has embraced the liberating aspects of the Internet as a 'new marketplace of ideas' more than the search giant Google. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Steve Ballmer never used to be someone who let facts speak for themselves. In the 1990s, he was the hyper-energetic Microsoft exec yelling 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' at an all-hands meeting in Safeco field. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it. "

" 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. "