The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. — Mike Fitzpatrick
We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology. — Balaji Srinivasan
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. — Jacques Ellul
We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change. —
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. — Kent Conrad
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. — Bill Gates
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole. — Michel Foucault
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. — John Perry Barlow
What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks. — Michael Saylor
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance. — Michel Foucault
We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now. — Jerry Garcia
To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. — Jean-Luc Godard
The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. — Bill Gates
Short Information Society Quotes
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. — John Naisbitt
Technology should be accessible to all, regardless of geography, income, or background. — Jensen Huang
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. — Henri Frederic Amiel
We have the Internet of Everything but not the inclusion of everyone. — Ajaypal Singh Banga
We're changing the world with technology. — Bill Gates
A society that encourages curiosity and intellectual exploration is a society that thrives. — Bret Weinstein
Information Society Image Quotes
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
Information Societies Quotes
The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing. — Andrew Breitbart
For after all, a poster does more than simply
supply information on the goods it advertises;
it also reveals a society’s state of mind — Armin Hofmann
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. — Thomas Jefferson
Dont look for society to give you permission to be yourself.
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed. — Edward Bernays
I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are...
because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
public. — Chelsea Manning
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. — Ruben Blades
Society is not only defined by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape. — Busta Rhymes
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent. — Myles Horton
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices. — Samuel Wilson
Information Age Quotes
Aging, quite simply, is a loss of information. — David Sinclair
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. — Timothy Leary
Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It's not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it's the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise. — David Sinclair
Don't be afraid to be open-minded. Your brain isn't going to fall out.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. — Tony Robbins
Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose. — Jerome Wiesner
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. — Walt Disney
Money can't buy manners.
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion. — J. C. R. Licklider
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. — Ronald Reagan
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. — Dave Barry
We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age. — Chris Hardwick
Information Technology Quotes
Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control. — John Von Neumann
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour. — Roy Lessin
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. — Steve Ballmer
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions. — Linda Darling-Hammond
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices. — Samuel Wilson
Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. — John Doolittle
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure. — Clay Shirky
Nature stuff all around us plants, animals, etc. are best thought of as basically super advanced alien technology. These are nanotechnology devices magically grown in ambient conditions with complex information processing. Synthetic bio is tinkering with hijacking this tech. — Andrej Karpathy
We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity. — Michael Oxley
A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals. — Robert D. Putnam
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. — Albert Einstein
I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak. — Christiane Amanpour
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast. — Ludwig van Beethoven
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight. — John F. Kennedy
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. — Carl Sagan
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society. — Thurgood Marshall
Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media. — Helen Prejean
In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information — Henry Jenkins
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. — A. J. Liebling
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. — Seth Lloyd
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. — Susan Orlean
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life. — Ed Asner
I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless. — Sissela Bok
The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves. — Barack Obama
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting. — Walter Lippmann
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society. — Alain Aspect
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information. — Paul Bley
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits. — John Naisbitt
It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously. — Wilson Bryan Key
We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. — Michael Crichton
The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged. — Bill Gates
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world. — Bill Gates
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society. — Koichiro Matsuura
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. — Seth Lloyd
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. — Matthew Lesko
Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society. — Leonard Shlain
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. — David Ogden Stiers
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. — Samuel Wilson
I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today. — Chelsea Manning
The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients. — Mike McGavick
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