Robert Tercek > Quotes

“Apple has $194 billion in cash on hand. That’s enough to buy 483 of the S&P 500 companies.”
― Robert Tercek, Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World

“everyday life is about to get strange or amazing, depending upon how comfortable you are with devices that talk back.”
― Robert Tercek, Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World

“In its quest to organize the world’s information, Google has scoured vast troves of data to amass the greatest accumulation of information assets on the planet, including the billions of search queries on google.com and YouTube and the billions of interactions on Android, the dominant operating system for most mobile devices. Google also controls an ever-growing index of the world’s websites and the browsing history of more than 2 billion users, three types of maps of the Earth’s surface and traffic patterns, a real-time list of trending topics, the largest archive of discussions in Usenet groups, the entire contents of 20 million books, a huge collection of photographs, the largest collection of video on the planet, the largest online email repository, even the largest archive of DNA data.”
― Robert Tercek, Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World