You can create art and beauty with a computer.

Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions.

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

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

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

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

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

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

The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it.

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

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

Fast, cheap, abundant broadband is a fantastic economic accelerator, enabling breakout businesses and kick-starting new industries.

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.

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

In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.

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.

Apple's iPod success led them to believe an even bigger breakthrough was possible with the iPhone. In some respects, the iPhone hype overwhelmed even Apple.

Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself. He got it.

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.

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.

Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.

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.

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.

Our chips keep getting faster, and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the day - or worse, by mid-afternoon - those power meters on our screens inevitably turn to red.

Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare.

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.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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