Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo
Paul Saffois a technology forecaster based in Silicon Valley. A Consulting Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, Saffo teaches courses on the future of engineering and the impact of technological change on the future. In 2008, Saffo was named Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network...
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The lesson about all these things, it's the lesson from time capsules, is you have to be careful lest you set yourself up for enormous embarrassment in two decades. Do you really want to be reminded that you thought ABBA was cool?
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The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.
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Browsers are becoming the default way to access information.
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The thing that most people don't realize about Steve is that he is not only really good at taking technology and turning it into good-looking, easy-to-use products, he's really good at doing it faster than anyone else.
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Messages into the future is something that people have always sought to do. In a way, it's a statement of optimism.
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With more technologies, there are more choices. Choose wisely and well. You don't have to read every e-mail you get; you need to develop your own rules of thumb and steps to sanity.
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We're seeing the rise of independent specialists who have a deep understanding of things that big companies don't have the ability to do.
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To me, the deal has the smell of inevitability to it. If it doesn't happen, for whatever reason, it would be a lost opportunity for both companies. The long-term trajectory of both these companies without each other is downwards.
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It will be consumers who will decide those solutions are good ones or not. I can guarantee you that Bluetooth will end up having its most important uses being uses that nobody can guess at today.
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It will be consumers who will decide those solutions are good ones or not, ... I can guarantee you that Bluetooth will end up having its most important uses being uses that nobody can guess at today.
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The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines.
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We're not so many years away from companies offering kits for the compulsive, ... (But) anyone that compulsive isn't going to lose something.
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That's going to change, ... We're going to put eyes, ears and sensory organs on our computers and our networks in absolutely unprecedented ways. We're going to ask them to observe and manipulate the physical world on our behalf.
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They're taking lots of really smart risks and doing things that are very strategic.