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When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Allowing Along Around Came Create Culture Devices Digital First Instead More Ourselves Shift Somehow Supposed Time Us

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Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Apple Applications Control Devices Else Everything Everything Else Files Giving Incompatible Iphone Itunes May Only Over Owned People Put Sold Store Thought Through Thus

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Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Around Been Cell Cell Phone Devices Dumber Function Get Immersed Imposed Just Logic Make Now Phone Requires System Us Use

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Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

~Drew Houston

Topics: Around Car Connects Data Devices Fabric Getting Means More Needs Smarter Spread Television Your

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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

~Ed Westwick

Topics: Am Been Day Day-To-Day Devices Doing Hotel Just Know Left Life My Own Out Own Paparazzi People Press Radio Today Who I Am

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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

~Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Topics: Also Artists Cassette Changed Consumed Created Development Devices Digital Disc Download Formats History Industry Inevitably Music Music Industry Only Piano Player Story Tape Technology The History Of Very Vinyl Way Cd

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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

~Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Topics: Around Devices Going How Inevitably Ipod Just Just One Made Many Mobile Music Need Phone Today Walk Want You

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I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Always Contemporary Devices Dramatic Feel Idea Ideas Liked Making Old Relevant Taking Them Whatever

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Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our schools, no place in our parks, no place on our streets, no place in our communities, and no place in this country.

~Elizabeth Esty

Topics: Allow Ammunition Communities Country Devices One Time Our Parks People Place Rounds Schools Shoot Streets Time Up

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From the boardroom to the bedroom, we're connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?

~Elizabeth Kapu'Uwailani Lindsey

Topics: All-Time Bedroom Connected Devices Did Go Hand High Humanity Loneliness Mobile More More People Need Our People Reaching Someone Than Where

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