Al Jarreau Quotes

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

We live in an environment in which connectivity and cyberspace are transforming all workplaces, including the humanitarian workplace.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

The central political problem of our time is how to adapt our venerable democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We need better policies to obtain the benefits of innovation as quickly as possible and to manage the social problems that speedier innovation will inevitably create—from pollution to weapons of mass destruction.