Charles Platt Quotes & Sayings

“The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.”

“A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.”

“As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.”

“In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.”

“Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.”

“Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.”

“The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.”

“The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.”

“At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.”

“Automakers have been unable to build a viable electric car, mainly because batteries don't allow enough range, are too costly, and take too long to recharge. Even electric utility companies - supercharged by deregulated markets, distributed power generation, and accelerating demand - have no easy way to store electricity to meet peak requirements.”