Ryan Joy (atxryan)

David Clark, senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, said in the report that 10 years from now, "we may lose our ability to write, in the literal sense that students are no longer taught penmanship. We will either type or print like 8-year-olds."

"The people whose backs have been broken under the weight of technological complexity and failure immediately understand what's happening here. Those of us who patiently, day after day, explain to a child or colleague that the reason there's no Print item in the File menu is because, although the Pages document is filling the screen, Finder is actually the frontmost application and it doesn't have any windows open, understand what's happening here."

The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.

Morgan Stanley predicts that smartphones "will out-ship the global notebook + netbook market in 2010E and out-ship the global PC market (notebook + netbook + desktop) by 2012E."

"a nice way to say that we need to work hard to avoid creating fascist robots that exercise a homogenizing influence on diverse human experiences."

"The concept aims to capture the essence of magazine reading, which
people have been enjoying for decades: an engaging and unique reading
experience in which high-quality writing and stunning imagery build up
immersive stories."

The first person to set foot on Mars has already been born: the rest of us must simply commit to sending her.

At least one human alive in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2150.

There is a strong likelihood that someone in this generati…

The first person to set foot on Mars has already been born: the rest of us must simply commit to sending her.

At least one human alive in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2150.

There is a strong likelihood that someone in this generati…