To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.
Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.
In technology, most things fail. Most companies fail.
President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.
What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.
Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator....."I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on Leclerk would be very helpful"Marie pursed her lips and humor danced in her eyes."It says you would like to have sex with me. I don't think that is correct""Oh, for Christ sake" Eve slammed a fist against the machine.
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
I sat down once with the application for Match.com and started to laugh. I couldn't even get past the first page. And that's a very good site!
It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.
An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
