This document contains a collection of quotes and thoughts on various topics related to technology and its impact. It discusses how technology has changed how music is consumed and how networks have influenced how information is understood. It also contains quotes on the internet becoming like a telephone system, how new technologies create new opportunities, and how vision and action are related. The document concludes by discussing disintermediating feeds, engaging tag clouds, and podcasting action items.

1. Why don't we do it in the
road? (beatles)
bostonian
5:49:04, Sat Jul 28, 2012

2. “ Just as we could have
rode into the sunset,
along came the
Internet, and it tripled
the significance of the
PC. ”
—Andy Grove

3. Life is not a struggle, it's a wiggle
· Why is music apparently less popular than software
gadgets?
· Broadcast less to the masses, and start narrow-casting
to the ones that actally want you
· It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you
how powerful they are.
· Ultimately, we cannot understand information without
the network, and cannot understand the network without
information.

4. Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen
twice as much as we speak.
Facilitate innovative solutions

5. Easy come, easy go. Harder gains make seeds to
sow.
· The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
· Sounds like a great deal to me: package it nicely and it
will sell regardless of free alternatives.
· Let's dig into some responses,and diagnose the health
of the current debate.
· What starts as playful conversation, imitating our
machines, easily becomes part of our language
discourse.

6. “ What new technology
does is create new
opportunities to do a
job that customers
want done. ”
—Tim O'Reilly

7. Vision with action is a daydream; action without
vision is a nightmare.
· I'll buy because I am already hooked on the music.
· Why would I export lists of addresses if I can always
search for them?
· It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet
made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
· But it must be noted that the cultural condition of such a
space is limited by the human ability to conceive its
complexity, as R.

8. In conclusion
· Disintermediate transparent feeds
· Engineer podcasting action-items
· Engage leading-edge tagclouds
· and remember: A man's greatest weakness is his ego;
his greatest strength is his ego.

9. Thank You
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Texts Images (via Flickr BY-SA-NC search)
Ben Grader, Elviz Low, SETUP Utrecht,
· Fiction is Friction - Gerd Leonhard
amymyou, craiglea123, gagilas
· The End of Control - Gerd Leonhard
· Music 2.0 - Gerd Leonhard
· New Aesthetic, New Anxieties - David M. Berry,
Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle
Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O'Reilly and Jose
Luis de Vicente.