All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.
Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows.
Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.
Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.
There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.
I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it.
I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.
I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.
We know that almost all Americans are avid consumers of technology, but many lack the opportunity to do the creative work that fuels our digital economy.
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.
The future of Pakistan is connected to IT, and we can move forward by utilising modern knowledge.
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody.
At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning.
But I will just make the slight point here - I have never ever bought anything online. I don't know how to.
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
