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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing powe

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. – Kevin Kelly

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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. – Kevin Kelly

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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesnt mean we can get there from here. – Kevin Kelly

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I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether theyll be screened on phones, on computers – on everything. – Michel Hazanavicius

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Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light. – Paul Davies

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I dont care how big and fast computers are, theyre not as big and fast as the world. – Herbert Simon

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I look like a geeky hacker, but I dont know anything about computers. – Justin Long

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