In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.
The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
With any previous transition we made with technology, it hasn't been the case that we need less people.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations
I want the UK to be a global leader in developing and deploying technology, but I also want us to ensure that the benefits are fairly shared across society.
People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor market and the threat that it poses to economic mobility. Rising to this challenge is not automatic. It's not costless. It's not easy. But it is feasible.
If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
The technological transformation of society contains within itself the dynamo of its own management, but only if we create laws and regulations to permit the information revolution to wash through our democratic structures.
Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately distributed, and late followers learn from the reactions and dilemmas of those who had initially encountered the disruptive change.
Technology is moving quickly. Policy is not moving as quickly.
