“It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.” WorldCommunicationRevolutionInternetExtraordinaryAround The World Author:Robbie Robertson
“You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.” PeopleGovernmentDifficultSupportRevolutionInternetSpringDevicesBroadsLibyaArab SpringTunisia Author:Eric Schmidt
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.” MovingRevolutionIndustryInternetComputerPlatformsWeb 2.0 Author:Tim O'Reilly
“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensUseAgeMotherSpeakLanguageBornTechnologyCuttingRevolutionInternetAdultsOkayTwentiesCamerasEdgesTongueThirtyExpertsDigitalMailAssistantsSurfLaptopsForeign LanguageCutting EdgeMother TongueDigital TechnologyPowerpointDigital Revolution Author:Ken Robinson
“It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.” IfsThinkingLosesRevolutionInternetSignificantAdmitting Author:Clay Shirky
“The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.” WorldSocialTechnologyRevolutionDevelopmentInternetIncludingSocial MediaInequalityCaliforniaValleysWorld HistorySiliconSilicon ValleyIndustrial RevolutionEqualizerSocial Inequality Author:Benazir Bhutto
“I think everybody wants to be the best at what they do and for me I was never really there, plus it was in a time that just preceded the insanity of internet promotion around 2005 and 2006. Obviously through the digital revolution things have moved very quickly and a lot of artists got left behind.” ThinkingWantArtistLeftBehindsRevolutionInternetMovedInsanityBeing The BestDigitalPlusLeft BehindPromotionDigital Revolution Author:Doc Brown
“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
“The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.” PeopleWantDoeRealValuesPayRevolutionInternetLessonsAddTransactionsReal ValueInternet Revolution Author:David F. D'Alessandro
“Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.” CareMissingRevolutionInternetCloudsHealth CareMobileInternet Revolution Author:John Sculley
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.” PeopleLooksUseBigsNextTechnologyRevolutionInternetPerceptionMachinesBelieverRevolutionary Author:Linus Torvalds
“People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.” PeopleWayTryingSaidEnoughCareForceStuffAnswersTechnologyFiguresRevolutionInternetDawnDamageEstablishmentCensorshipRoutesThey SaidScrewsNaiveAdvancingComplacentInternet Revolution Author:Paul Saffo
“I am super lucky. I've been in the area where things have been changing and been part of the digital revolution, the magic of software, the internet, the computer, and now the cellphone... so it's been a great privilege.” MagicRevolutionInternetLuckyComputerSoftware Author:Bill Gates
“Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.” CommunicationRevolutionInternetElectricityIntroduction Author:Werner Herzog
“I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest examples of climate-related extreme weather events, and the latest examples of progress. The world is in the midst of a sustainability revolution that has the scope of the industrial revolution, but with the speed of the digital revolution. That's not enough without new laws and the right kind of political leadership. But it does give us a base from which to build a movement that will save us from the most catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis.” WorldGivingKindEnoughHelpingPoliticalProgressRevolutionInternetConsequenceCrisisSpeedHelp MeSustainabilityIndustrial Revolution Author:Al Gore
“I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.” PeopleThinkingLongHouseRevolutionInternetFrightening Author:Bruce Campbell
“With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines - now you're on the web. I'm in book publishing. I don't have to tell you what's happened to us. Television has taken a hit. The music industry. But, thousands of new businesses have emerged on this new communication revolution platform. Not just Google, Facebook, and Twitter. There are thousands of operations. Businesses that are doing the platforms, the apps. They're mining the big data. They're creating the connections.” BookTakenCommunicationRevolutionInternetPublishingGoogleMusic IndustryMiningNew Business Author:Jeremy Rifkin
“Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people from small communities to relative anonymity in cities. Because of that paradigm shift, ideas about what it means to be an individual underwent a transformation that leeched into all areas. Art, psychology, history, marriage, gender.” PeopleThinkingMeanArtValuesIndividualCommunityPsychologyChangedRevolutionInternetTransformationGenderAuthenticityHistorianSincerityRelativeParadigmAnonymityIndustrial RevolutionParadigm Shift Author:Debra Monroe
“It's a despicable world we're living in now. It's the most disgusting time for music in terms of big wigs, guys who like playing the game. It's hard to get your stuff heard. I find it really annoying actually. I think my music would appeal to a lot of people but being on Warp in the States it's really hard to get radio play and exposure. We need to push this internet revolution forward quickly.” PeopleThinkingWorldGuyTermRevolutionInternetAnnoyingDisgusting Author:Jamie Lidell
“If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.” PoliticalTechnologyRevolutionInternetInformation Technology Author:Michael Hudson
“Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.” Has BeensWholeRevolutionIndustryInternetPagesModelsMachinesIncludingInventionDigitalYellowEnginesTelephonesDistributionSteamBusiness ModelsFaxSteam EnginesDigital RevolutionFax Machines Author:John Sununu
“What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.” PeopleFacesRoomsTechnologyTroubleHugeRevolutionAmountInternetSpendingContactShyMailIsolatedFace To FaceShynessAlone Time Author:Philip Zimbardo
“My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'” CountryLastsPresidentRevolutionInternetEuropeTyrannyControlledUnlikelyRiceHomelandBelarusInternet Revolution Author:Evgeny Morozov
“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.” WritingTechnologyRevolutionInternetComputerPressesSignificantInventionDigitalPrintingPrinting PressComputer TechnologyDigital RevolutionInternet Revolution Author:Douglas Engelbart