Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes
The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.
MacKinnon, Rebecca. Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom. Basic Books, 2012.
Shortly thereafte,r he presented a a proof that any sufficiently large integer can be written as a sum of 1046 tenth powers – a fascinating finding that has proved of absolutely no socially utilitarian use. Congress and State Legislators beccome upset when public money is spent on new mathematial advances that don't seem to have any practical utility. However, much abstract mathematics was developed many years before society discovered that they were useful and in many cases invaluable. Also, even when a new mathematical creation never has any utility, it often leads to a more advanced form of mathematics for which there are useful applications.
Rebecca MacKinnon is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.
