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"Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet."
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Bran Ferren"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 is an American technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor. Ferren is the former President of Research and Development of Walt Disney Imagineering as well as founder of Associates & Ferren, a multidisciplinary engineering and design firm acquir
"Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet."
"Vibrant companies must put together five-year plans. But they must be willing to change these five-year plans every single year."
"“The Net, I guarantee you, really is fire. I think it’s more important than the invention of movable type.”"
"Theres no Bits, like Show Bits"
"[On the need for ultra high definition television] The problem with television isnt the number of horizontal scanning lines. Its the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors."
"Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them."