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I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.

— Jake Barton

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

— Marc Andreessen

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

— Danny Boyle

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

— James Randi

Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.

— Jimmy Johnson

As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.

— Jon Evans

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

— George Clooney

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

— Loretta Lynch

Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!

— Bjork

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

— A. N. Wilson

We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.

— Gabe Newell