Quotes About Evolution

Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts—the faster, the better.

we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even

The connection between doing and knowing is breaking down.

When, in an 1892 lecture before a group of teachers, William James declared that "the art of remembering is the art of thinking," he was stating the obvious.14 Now, his words seem old-fashioned. Not only has memory lost its divinity; it's well on its way to losing its humanness. Mnemosyne has become a machine.

We cannot go back to the lost oral world, any more than we can turn the clock back to a time before the clock existed. 'Writing and print and the computer,' writes Walter Ong, 'are all ways of technologizing the word'; and once technologized, the word cannot be de-technologized.

When we speak with emoji, we're speaking a language that machines can understand.

When a newspaper moves online, the bundle falls apart.

Neuroplasticity, argues Pascual-Leone, is one of the most important products of evolution, a trait that enables the nervous system "to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.

In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.

But intellectually, our ancestors' oral culture was in many ways a shallower one than our own.

The genius of our brain's construction is not that it contains a lot of hardwiring but that it doesn't.

The earliest examples of reading and writing date back many thousands of years. As long ago as 8000 BC, people were using small clay tokens engraved with simple symbols to keep track of quantities of livestock and other goods.

our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.

What we're experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.

All technological change is generational change.

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google," he said in a 2000 interview, long before his company's name had become a household word. "We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. —John M. Culkin

A hundred years ago, we arrived at such as moment with technologies that extend man's physical powers. We are at another such moment today with technologies that extend our intellectual power

It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time.

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Well, this may have once been a ham, but now it is nothing but an ex-ham.

If markets change then so must brands.

They evolve because of the experiences and resulting expectations of people as they buy, use, adapt, discuss and interact with the brand and the absorption of those experiences by employees who in turn can use that knowledge to re-structure and re-present the brand.