Quotes by Paul Saffo

Paul Saffo

“Point of view” is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum… In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources…

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Information

Views

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

Doe

Facts

Thinking

As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They’re ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough.

Gun

Past

Thinking

As recently as the ’70s, people were forced to see information that they didn’t agree with in newspapers and the like. Now there is so much information you really can build your own walled garden that just has the stuff that reinforces your view. I think it applies to all of us. People are really going into these separate camps, and that’s the big social challenge in this age of too much information. How do we crack that and create a common dialogue?

Garden

Thinking

Views

As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville’s Global Business Network) likes to say, “Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first.” There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA’s) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.

Forever

Machines

Years

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

Cyberspace

Iphone

Pockets

Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

Digital

Glue

Technology

Each time you toss out a ‘singing’ greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

Cards

Singing

World

Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.

Break Off

Dark

Worry

Every new thing upsets people. We all know someone that has a teenage kid who sits in the room and the television is on, their iPod is on, they have the computer on and at least three other electronic devices going while they’re doing their homework. It drives the dad nuts, but he can’t complain because the kid’s a 4.1 (GPA) student.

Dad

Kids

Teenage

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Book

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Challenges

Class

Climate

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Couple

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Culture

Cyberspace

Dad

Dark

Data

Decades

Defined

Design

Different

Digital

Discipline

Distance

Doe

Doors

Dream

Ebay

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Economy

Ego

Entrepreneur

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Excluded

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Facts

Fall

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Quotes by Paul Saffo

Paul Saffo

“Point of view” is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum… In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources…

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

Each time you toss out a ‘singing’ greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.

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