Information age Quotes

“One nation controlled by the media; information age of hysteria.”

“Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.”

“While we claim to live in an information age, disinformation has become the order of the day.”

“The Information Age”

“Wikipedia: Information age”

“An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.”

“The Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age the network.”

“Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.”

“In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place—a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in computers and telecommunications.”

“Soon, the enterprise of the information age will find itself unhappy if it does not have the ability to tap the information resources within and without its boundaries.”

“In 1980 a law was passed called the Paperwork Reduction Act. It could have been called the Information Management Act of 1980.”

“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.”

“The Information age is well upon us in seven major fields — learning, diagnostics, management, physical planning, finance, entertainment and communication.”

“Understanding how maps work and why maps work (or do not work) as representations in their own right and as prompts to further representations, and what it means for a map to work, are critical issues as we embark on a visual information age.”

“With the massive amount of personal data on the Internet, Facebook nation has opened Pandora's box of total information awareness in the age of big data. Fortunately, Pandora's box released not only evil but also hope.. The hope is that good will trump evil.”

“We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.”

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. … The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.”

“The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.”

“It's very sad how in the information age you cannot get information into people's heads — as long as you write something on the internet and do not add LOL — it is true : "I'm not sure he's a Christian." — I'm not sure he's a mammal, Jay. He could be a werewolf.”

“Professional partisans are still playing politics by industrial-age rules. They haven’t woken up to the information age reality. Younger generations have grown up with a multiplicity of choice on every front, which can be tailored to suit their individual beliefs. Politics is the last place where we are supposed to be satisfied with a choice between Brand A and Brand B.”