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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

" Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee. "

" The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality. "

" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "

" 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. "

" As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it. "

Steven Levy

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

" 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. "

" No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

Steven Levy

Nation

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "