Quotes about "Technology & Digital Life"

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships. ”

I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same. ”

I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move. ”

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet? ”

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. ”

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing. ”

The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want. ”

The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now. ”

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom. ”

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity. ”