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We haven't evolved as loners, we need each other. It's easy to believe in the illusion of technology bringing us closer together. But if you were to protest that and say, 'I'm not going to use a smartphone, I'm not going to use email, I'm not going to use social media,' it's like you're no longer a part of humanity.

American Musician

Richard Stallman

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

Scientist

Mary Barra

I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.

American Businesswoman

Steve Mollenkopf

Look at smartphones. We are seeing growth almost like a barbell. You see lower-priced but high-volume growth in the developing world. But it ends up the average selling prices in the developing world are actually a lot higher than what people think.

American Businessman

Sam Fender

I think I'm the last generation that remembers life before the smartphone. I'm going to be one of them old geezers going, 'You know, when I was a kid, we used to play with sticks.

English Musician

Steven Sinofsky

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

Gaspar Noe

I still can't get used to a smartphone. There's something I really dislike about it, but for a new generation, life without smartphones never existed.

Argentinian Director

Ryan Kavanaugh

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

American Producer

Peggy Johnson

I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.

James B. Stewart

I'm hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.

American Journalist

Smartphones are common and used everywhere, reflecting modern lifestyle and connectivity.

Ubiquitous Device

Smartphones provide essential internet access and communication, crucial to daily activities.

Connectivity Essential

Smartphones are defined by the ability to download and use a variety of apps for different purposes.

App-Driven

Smartphones combine multiple functions from photography to banking, much like a multi-tool.

Digital Swiss Army Knife

Smartphones are essentially compact computers with the added feature of making phone calls.

Portable Computing

Smartphones provide a platform for developers to create and distribute apps globally.

Developer Friendly

 They really liked that the robot was enjoying the music. And they didn't say the robot was moving to the music, they said "enjoying" the music. And we thought, why don't we take this idea, and I designed a new piece of furniture. This time it wasn't a desk lamp, it was a speaker dock, one of those things you plug your smartphone in. And I thought,

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 to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone -- that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. These technologies have made our modern world possible, but they've also changed us.

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 In smartphones, these create the screen and color display, aid conductivity, and produce the signature vibrations, amongst other things. And yet, crucial as they are, extracting these elements from the earth is linked to some disturbing environmental impacts.

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 or smartphones leveled the playing field for entrepreneurship, politics or education, recent advances have leveled it up for biotech progress as well, and that is allowing multidisciplinary teams like ours to try to tackle and look at these problems

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 has unleashed a firestorm of innovation. In fact, many of you navigated here today with the help of your TomTom or your smartphone. Paper maps are becoming obsolete. But we now stand on the verge of another revolution in geolocation accuracy.

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 where people all over the world collaborate on all kinds of creative projects, so I don't think that social media or smartphones or any technology is problematic in and of itself. if we're going to talk about the perils of creativity

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 than singing its praises, but batteries are a triumph of science. They allow smartphones and other technologies to exist without anchoring us to an infernal tangle of power cables. Yet even the best batteries will diminish daily,

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 a patient, an individual, anywhere in the world on your smartphone, watching your rhythm -- that's incredible, and it's with us today. But that's just the beginning. You check your email while you're sitting here.

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