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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. -- Bill Gates
The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. -- Malcolm Turnbull
All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. -- Godfrey Reggio
The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change. -- Najib Razak
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. -- Norman Spinrad
I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology. -- Vinod Khosla
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. -- Daniel Yergin
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington. -- Evgeny Morozov
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions. -- Lech Walesa
Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer. -- James Gleick
Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system. -- Carly Fiorina
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. -- Antonio Damasio
Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic. -- James Dyson
The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform. -- Reed Hastings
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine. -- Michael Leunig
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. -- Godfrey Reggio
The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics. -- Evgeny Morozov
I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics. -- Ron Conway
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. -- Howard Rheingold
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former. -- L. Neil Smith
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology. -- Geoffrey Hinton
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete. -- Alvin Toffler
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. -- Max Born
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. -- Marshall McLuhan
In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew. -- Andrew Aydin
"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore. -- John Zerzan

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