James Surowiecki Quotes About Technology

• Se supone que la tecnología nos facilita la vida y nos permite hacer las cosas con mayor rapidez y eficacia. Pero con demasiada frecuencia parece dificultar las cosas, dejándonos con mandos a distancia de cincuenta botones, cámaras digitales con cientos de funciones misteriosas y manuales larguísimos, y coches con sistemas de salpicadero dignos del transbordador espacial.

  James Surowiecki

  Book, Technology, Space

  "Feature Presentation". www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

• As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Technology, People

• If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Technology, Giants

• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  James Surowiecki

  Cutting, Technology, Practice

• Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

  James Surowiecki

  Powerful, Technology, Numbers

  "Blackberry Season". www.newyorker.com. February 13 & 20, 2012.

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