The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.
Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
Hipness is the only asset that matters.
The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.
Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don’t come out.
It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.
Each time you toss out a ‘singing’ greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.