“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
“The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.” PlayPoliticalIndividualProcessRolesInternetActiveCampaignsEmpowering Author:Al Gore
“I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.” ThinkingWorldPoliticalInternetAccessChineseEngagementCensorshipContributingPreventingOutside WorldPolitical Engagement Author:Bill Gates
“What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.” ThinkingKindPoliticalInternetNewsOutrageousInappropriateJihad Author:Tom Brokaw
“We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.” PoliticalLeftLeaderGenerationsCommunicationInternetMindsetSuspectsVersusEmergingPolitical LeadersYounger Generation Book:The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World Source: The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
“New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.” PeopleWayDonePoliticalThreePoliticsIndividualInterestTechnologyDemocracyModernSpecialEventsInformationChangedInternetEasierActivityCompetitionIncludingPhonesAccessLandscapePaceEmailBlastPolitical SystemsPhone CallsInformation TechnologyPolitical PowerSpecial InterestsCoordinatesNew InformationThree WaysFax Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon
“Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.” PeopleKindPoliticalPoliticsImaginationCreativityDemocracyInternetCapitalismDemocraticVersionsSoftwareFrameworkNapster Author:Al Gore
“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
“I am possibly thinking about doing an Internet show in the future that will highlight political organizations that I seek out to let people know about them, volunteer opportunities, and donation opportunities.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsPoliticalOpportunityInternetOrganizationVolunteerHighlightsDonation Author:Kathleen Hanna