Bran Ferren: Technology

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“The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language.”

Bran Ferren

Context: The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language. It will be far more important than reading and writing as a purposeful tool. Everything that is enabled by story telling will be enabled by the Internet.

Quoted by Peter Guber, in

“The technology needed for an early Internet-connection implant is no more than 25 years off. Imagine that you could understand any language, remember every joke, solve any equation, get the latest news, balance your checkbook, communicate with others, and have near-instant access to any book ever published, without ever having to leave the privacy of yourself.”

Bran Ferren

Technology Predictions: Wired for Life: The Internet Implant (June 1998 Columns), Columns Magazine, University of Washington, August 31, 1998, September 8, 2013 http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june98/technology.html,

Books , Imagination , Communication , Understanding

“It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical inner city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.”

Bran Ferren

Metal Front Doors with Glass Like Success, likesuccess.com, 2017-01-16 http://likesuccess.com/img4416163,

School , Country

“Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet.”

Bran Ferren

Quoted by Douglas Adams, in How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, September 8, 2013 http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html,