Technology Quotes by Paul Saffo

Paul Saffo

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

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Paul Saffo

I would say digital technology probably doesn’t have much impact on us so far. We’ve seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home movies. We have videotapes now and e-mails. When it’s going to get interesting is in massively multiplayer online games where you have avatars (online personas). You could actually create an avatar that’s semi-autonomous. It could do things for you while you get off the game to run the rest of your life.

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Paul Saffo

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people’s imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.

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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.

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My advice is don’t use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new businesses and if you do that right, the cost savings will come.

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People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can’t. It’s up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn’t be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.

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Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old thing more efficiently, where in this moment of deep transformation, it is much more likely that you should be doing something entirely new in an entirely different way.

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We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.

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We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

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