“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.” IfsShouldPoliticalAbilityLevelsPowerfulAudienceEconomyMediaFieldsSourceInternetShould HaveInnovationCustomersCorporationsEnginesDiscourseSmall BusinessPlaying FieldsForumsBloggersPolitical DiscourseLevel Playing Field Author:Al Franken
“With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.” HumansSocialEconomyEffectsInternetHarderInvisible Author:George Packer
“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.” WorldBookRealPoliticalValuesGamesSocialEconomyIssuesPlayerEconomicInternetLaborInnovationProfoundChineseFraudSurprisingInflationEmergenceSyntheticEconomic IssuesSweatshops Author:Tim Harford
“When Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.” MindNationsEconomyInternetBillsClinton Author:David Leonhardt
“Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.” ReasonGovernmentRolesEconomyEconomicInternetSpeechEssentialsPreservesOpennessProtectedFree SpeechNeutralityNet NeutralityInternet Freedom Author:Julius Genachowski
“America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.” ShouldAmericaEconomyEnvironmentInternetFoundationSecureTensionOur FutureTrustedCooling Author:Edward Snowden
“The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.” StatesEarthEconomyInternetCriticalSupposed To BeWarfareInfrastructureDomainBattlegroundFrontline Author:Edward Snowden
“When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.” StatesEarthNationsLosesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyInternet Author:Edward Snowden
“The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.” LosesEconomyEffectsInternetNormalConsequenceBasesMediumsRelyBroadsProtectedNormal LifeMonitoring Author:Edward Snowden
“There are so many wonders awaiting us. If we can upload memories, then we might be able to combat Alzheimers, as well as create a brain-net of memories and emotions to replace the internet, which would revolutionize entertainment, the economy, and our way of life. Maybe even to help us live forever, and send consciousness into outer space.” IfsWayWellsHelpingMightAbleMemoriesSpaceEmotionBrainConsciousnessWonderEconomyForeverInternetEntertainmentCombatLive ForeverOuter SpaceAlzheimer Author:Michio Kaku