Digital Shift Quotes

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were incredibly dominant. That time has passed.

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

My mum records everything I'm in on VHS. Like, who still has VHS? I told her it's all online now, but she still tapes it.

TV and appointment viewing is a thing of the past for the youth.

People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.

People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.