Steve Mollenkopf

Power, of course, is very important, but really, there's a bundle of technologies you have to have to make sure they're highly integrated, so you have to have modem, you have to have connectivity, you have to have GPS, you have to have graphics, you have to have CPU.

American Businessman

Evgeny Morozov

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

Belarusian Writer

Steve Case

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.

Gavin Esler

What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in globalisation is speed. How fast is your modem? How good are you communications?

Scottish Journalist

Mark Goulston

Is it possible that the collective global psyche of the world is like an overloaded modem and can no longer meaningfully communicate, comprehend, or listen to anything or anyone else?

American Psychologist

John Patrick

Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.

American Playwright

Henry Samueli

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

Matt Drudge

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

American Journalist

Sandra Bullock

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

American Actress

C. L. R. James

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

Trinidadian Journalist

Modem is a technical term often found in discussions about internet and network connectivity.

Technological Artifact

A modem is a physical object, not a virtual concept, that connects to your computer or router.

Physical Device

Without a modem, you cannot access the internet using traditional broadband services.

Necessity for Internet

 Basically you take an ordinary telephone, you plug it into this little box that they give you and the box plugs into your cable modem. Now, it works just like a regular phone. So you can pick up the phone, you hear a dial tone, but its just a fake-out. It's a WAV file of a dial tone, just to reassure you that the world hasn't ended. It could be anything. It could be salsa music

David Pogue: Cool new...

 fixed at least until we have some kind of technological singularity or a human tech sort of coeval you know symbiosis that allows us to extend the capacities of the brain beyond their current limits we have true you know bandwidth limitations you know it's like your brain is like a 56k modem and we're

Mind Blown - Hangout to...

 Could we leverage these technologies to switch smartly whenever you travel from country to country? So we looked at the modem, an important part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and asked ourselves why the modems that we are using right now are built for a different context, where you've got

Juliana Rotich: Meet...

 So I want to tell you a little bit of a story, and this is going to date me, but I went to a school at the very bottom of the South Island in New Zealand, tiny little school, and we had a computer not dissimilar to this one. And attached to that computer was a little black box called a modem,

Small rockets are the...

 It's caused a lot of controversy because people thought that this was the ultimate kind of one man, one modem democracy, where anybody can get out there and get their voice heard. And so the question is, "Why is this happening?" It's not being imposed by fiat from above.

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 multimedia services the audio basically from the satellite directly to a radio set and then the multimedia so you connect that radio set on computer and then it becomes like a modem that can download data and pretty pretty respectable speeds first voice itself

WorldSpace: The world’s...

 have frequent power blackouts it's very annoying and reliable connectivity and challenging environments so we looked at the modem which is a very important device for us who are very dependent on the internet and said how can we

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