“I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.” WayFirstsUseGroupsCommunicationInternetProjectsResearchSystematic Author:Joshua Lederberg
“Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.” KindAgeTechnologyGroupsCommunicationInternetCustomersAll KindsProvidingGlobes Author:Jean-Marie Messier
“The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.” KnowsMenMindDoePlayYoungViewsPowerfulRolesGroupsEffectsInternetTerrorismMilesSignificantViolentPreachingPromotionMiles AwayYoung MindsViolent Man Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” MayBeliefJusticeGroupsInternetCircumstancesPrivacyAssociationFree SpeechIndispensableDissidents Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.” PeopleHas BeensWantedCoursesStuffGroupsShareInformationGoes OnInternetPerceptionBunchVisible Author:Walt Mossberg
“I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.” TryingAbleGroupsInternetImportanceCompetition Author:Earl Sweatshirt
“In 1991, the latest year figures are available, most Americans, across all age groups, disapproved when asked the question: 'Everything considered, would you say that you approve or disapprove of wiretapping?' Some 67% of all 18-20 year olds gave the thumbs down, as did 68% of the Gen-X crowd...Boomers disapproved of wiretapping almost 3-to-1 while 67% of those 50 and over disapproved.” YearsAgeGroupsFiguresInternetCrowdsAvailableFree SpeechThumbsBoomersThumbs Down Author:Brock N. Meeks
“I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentTogetherOpportunityGivenEasyMy OwnGroupsStyleInternetMassCrossesGenreNicheDifferent Styles Author:Mac Miller
“I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.” MeanDarkSupportGroupsInternetGayAidsSupport Groups Author:Rufus Wainwright
“My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on the Internet and read what bloggers have written about me, I would get so down, and I would get so sad. The biggest support group was obviously my parents, and I'd call them. And they'd build me up.” EnoughParentSupportWrittenGroupsTaughtJudgingInternetDown AndGood EnoughCommentSo SadBloggersSupport Groups Author:Carmen Rasmusen
“Well, I think here there is some money gathered, especially in Europe, through the web, through connection to a network. I mean, imagine that in Brussels there is only one person, one single person, which is monitoring the traffic that goes on on the internet for the jihadist groups. In Strasbourg there are two people. So I mean you can imagine how easy it is to raise money through the net.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanPersonsTwoEasyImagineGroupsGoes OnInternetEuropeConnectionsRaisesImagine ThatTrafficSingle PersonMonitoringBrussels Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.” PeopleActionFormSocialCommunityGroupsMediaCommunicationRevolutionInternetCivilizationSmartPressesRateAvailableScalesEmpiresCollectivesInteractionTribesBureaucracyTelephonesGlobalizationMobilePrintingAlphabetNomadSocial InteractionPrinting PressMonotheismCollective Action Author:Howard Rheingold
“When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.” PersonsHateOpinionGroupsFansSourceInternetPicksPressesJust OneRealisingSmall GroupsTyping Author:George Lucas
“If you have an Internet-connected system, there's no wall currently that you can build that's high enough or deep enough to keep a dedicated nation-state or even a sophisticated criminal group out of your system.” IfsStatesEnoughNationsGroupsWallInternetConnectedCriminalsDedicatedSophisticated Author:John Carlin