I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
Tom PetersThe company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
Tom PetersCost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
Tom PetersReady, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
Tom PetersWe all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.
Tom Peters