Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. Felix Dennis computercopydocument share on social
The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention. Ruth Reichl attentionchangeclamor Change image and share on social
I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have. Neill Blomkamp changecomputercreate Change image and share on social
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. Steven Levy computerdebughistory Change image and share on social
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally. Mother Angelica animalcomputeremotionally Change image and share on social
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. Matt Mullenweg computerheadjoke Change image and share on social
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators. John Battelle accuracyactionableaddress share on social
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer. Hod Lipson beatcarchess share on social
We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one. Tyler Cowen amountchancecomplicate share on social
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software. Jack Dangermond 90sbuycomputer share on social