In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
Interpretation
Privacy is essential in the digital age, and mass surveillance is unacceptable.
This quote highlights the importance of prioritizing privacy in our increasingly digital world, suggesting that the pervasive nature of surveillance undermines individual freedoms. Al Gore draws attention to the ethical implications of monitoring individuals without their consent, calling it a severe infringement on personal liberties.
In practice
In a speech about technology rights, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of safeguarding personal privacy.
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.
Do I really want to do a mobile game that's one of 300,000, where discoverability is everything? You really have to have a little more sizzle on the steak. I would rather be one of 100 apps for Google Glass than one of 300,000 for iOS and Android.
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.