11 IT Quotes to Help You Understand America
It’s probably safe to say that we are living through one of the most tumultuous socio-political periods in our nation’s recent collective memory, and that technology is playing a leading role.
Social media is supporting the rise of hate groups and helping protestors organize for political action, and also serving as a platform to expose the racial reality of millions of Americans. Russia’s cyberattacks on the 2016 elections has cast a dirty pall over the democratic ideals our nation prizes the most. The recent gender bias manifesto written by an employee of Google, a company whose very technological ubiquity renders it one of the biggest social influences of modern times, reignited the intense debate around systemic bias toward women in tech and in business.
Sometimes, a few words of wisdom can go a long way toward helping us regain perspective—or at least to remind us there are people out there who are still capable of reason in times of madness. Since it is underpinning so much of the tumult our country is currently experiencing, perhaps we should look toward information technology if we want understanding that will help us make sense of the world around us.
Here are 11 quotes about tech that made us think a little more deeply about the headlines we see every day.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
– Eric Schmidt
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.
– Shoshana Zuboff
But they (computers) are useless. They can only give you answers.
– Pablo Picasso
It’s hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don’t think it’s necessarily broader or smarter.
– Robert Redford
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
– Sydney Harris
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
– James Surowiecki
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
– Jaron Lanier
You look at marketing: everything that’s happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that’s happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that’s driven by information technology. It’s no longer discrete.
– Satya Nadella
I’m fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.
– Richard Dawkins
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
– Evgeny Morozov
We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
– Robert Mueller
We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
– Robert Mueller
11 IT Quotes to Help You Understand America
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