Naveen Jain Quotes
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
Jain, Naveen. "Why Non-Experts Are The True Innovators." Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 15 Mar. 2013.
This seemingly beneficial objective began to develop serious opponents as Google began to index more and more of the knowledge of the society. Vested copyright interests, scholars, civil libertarians, privacy advocates, and forces in control of information all discovered consequences.
While Wikipedia has not yet reached every person in the world, it has already distributed more human knowledge than any other vehicle in human history. And all at no cost to the user. It is certainly the greatest volunteer intellectual effort in history.
The Senator was referring to the difficulty that governments have in censoring and controlling information on the Internet.
At the time he wrote this, the Chinese government heavily censored the Internet. While there was an enormous unprecedented access to information, much was unavailable to most Chinese.
Naveen K. Jain is a business executive, entrepreneur, and the founder and former CEO of InfoSpace. InfoSpace briefly became one of the largest internet companies in the American Northwest, before the crash of the dot-com bubble and a series of lawsuits involving Jain. In 2010 Jain co-founded Moon Express where he is the Executive Chairman, and in 2016 founded Viome, where he is the CEO.