As it was in the beginning?

The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system: "But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."  Matthew 5:37. 


 

Turn on, tune in, drop out?

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut

Voice recognition technology reconsidered

And God said: DELETE lines One to Aleph. LOAD. RUN. 

And the Universe ceased to exist.

Arthur C. Clarke

Strange enthusiasm?

To set but a low value upon toast[ers] is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

E.V. Lucas

Squawk box?

I don't hold with furniture that talks.

Fred Allen

Having it all?

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. 


Ella Maillart 

Forget about digital natives

In fact, the ubiquity of the handheld reflects two other key trends among the Baby Boomers: No one has a secretary, and no one can remember a damn thing.

Elliott Abrams

Chrono-confoundment

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.  

Lee Segall

The Digital Age?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke 

 

We've heard that a million monkeys....

...at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

Robert Wilensky

Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction....

I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have.

Jack Handy

Your date for the atomic prom

Miss Betty Clift dressed as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

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