The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the impressive speed of communication while cautioning against the rapid spread of false information.
Edward R. Murrow remarks on the remarkable speed at which communication occurs in the modern world, emphasizing that while this ability can enhance the sharing of knowledge, it also poses the significant risk of propagating misinformation. In a time where messages can reach millions in an instant, the responsibility to critically assess the truthfulness of information becomes paramount.
In practice
In a speech about media literacy, one might quote Murrow to stress the importance of discerning truth from falsehood.
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.
The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.
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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.
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