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Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

~Douglas Adams

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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

~Douglas Adams

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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Assumed Back Bill Bill Gates Brought Computer Computers Concept Created First Followed Gates He History Jobs Looking Mac Mouse New New Way Operating Operating System Personal Rest Running Saw Steve Steve Jobs Suit System Then Toured Used Way Windows Work Xerox

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Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Accurately Any Basically Computer Costs Does Doing Every Faster Health Health Insurance Insurance Less Less Money Money More New Person Program Some Task Used Without

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If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Been Body Clock Clockwork Compute Computer Consciousness Digital Human Human Body Human Consciousness Joke Mechanics Memory Need Now Our Processing Things Universe Wiped

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The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Acceleration Activity Computer Consuming Days Does Eating Economic Economic Activity Just Manufacturing Mechanism Narrow Needs Non-Stop Our Own Processing Real Real Work Resources Satisfy Up Work World Year 365 Days

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Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

~Douglas Trumbull

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I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

~Douglas Trumbull

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