Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.
It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn’t free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn’t require paper.