Joel Edgerton Quotes

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

DVD ushered in this era when you had to have additional footage, deleted scenes, things like that. There was no call for that back when we were just doing VHS cassettes and LaserDiscs.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

... life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

I don't know much about technology anymore.

I'm a huge DVD fan.

When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical would just be gone.

Humanity will be obsolete by 2050. This is the consensus at Google and Facebook and Twitter.

Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.

High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.

If Meekmahan ever came to the Hardy compound, I would tell Meekmahan, face-to-face, 'You'll fade away and classify yourself as obsolete! Obsolete!'

Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we're running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too fast, and our enemies are too adaptable.

I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.

And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.