Bart Chilton Quotes

Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.

Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.

Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

We want to inspire everyone to recognize the positive social impact they can have if they choose to become technologists.

So much of the world is digital.

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.