“Marshall McLuhan prediction was some kind of electronic communication technology would emerge to instantaneously connect the world so much so that the whole globe would be like a village.” WorldKindTechnologyCommunication Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“The point I'm trying to make is if these networks of communication technologies are owned, monetized, surveilled, and classified by those with power - very few people, mainly white men in Silicon Valley - then it is a global village build upon the ideas, visions, words, and protocols of the few. So it's not global - it's like Epcot center. It's like Disneyland: a small worldview of the larger world.” PeopleMenWorldTryingVisionTechnologyCommunicationWorldviewDisneylandSmall World Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“If you create networks that allow people in their own local systems to have power and agency and sovereignty in their own systems. The idea that people could just know what's happening with their data. You could work with the platform, in communication with it, more than "I'm just like experiencing as a blind person in a black box".” PeopleBlackCommunicationBlindSovereignty Author:Ramesh Srinivasan