The New Digital Age Quotes

“The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Identity will be the most valuable commodity for citizens in the future, and it will exist primarily online.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history. Hundreds of millions of people are, each minute, creating and consuming an untold amount of digital content in an online world that is not truly bound by terrestrial laws.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Digital empowerment will be, for some, the first experience of empowerment in their lives, enabling them to be heard, counted and taken seriously—all because of an inexpensive device they can carry in their pocket.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“In many ways, the Internet could ultimately be seen as the realization of the classic international-relations theory of an anarchic, leaderless world. Here’s how we think states will respond to each other and to their citizens. The Balkanization of the Internet As we said, every state and society in the world has its own laws, cultural norms and accepted behaviors. As billions of people come online in the next decade, many will discover a newfound independence—in ideas, speech and conversation—that will test these boundaries. Their governments, by contrast, would largely prefer that these users encounter a virtual world that allows the powers that be to mirror their physical control, an understandable if fundamentally naïve notion. Each state will attempt to regulate the Internet, and shape it in its own image. The impulse to project laws from the physical world into the virtual one is universal among states, from the most democratic to the most authoritarian. What states can’t build in”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Citizen participation will reach an all-time high as anyone with a mobile handset and access to the Internet will be able to play a part in promoting accountability and transparency. A shopkeeper in Addis Ababa and a precocious teenager in San Salvador will be able to disseminate information about bribes and corruption, report election irregularities and generally hold their governments to account. Video cameras installed in police cars will help keep the police honest, if the camera phones carried by citizens don’t already. In fact, technology will empower people to police the police in a plethora of creative ways never before possible, including through real-time monitoring systems allowing citizens to publicly rate every police officer in their hometown. Commerce, education, health care and the justice system will all become more efficient, transparent and inclusive as major institutions opt in to the digital age. People who try to perpetuate myths about religion, culture, ethnicity or anything else will”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“The shift from having one’s identity shaped off-line and projected online to an identity that is fashioned online and experienced off-line will have implications for citizens, states and companies as they navigate the new digital world. And how people and institutions handle privacy and security concerns in this formative period will determine the new boundaries for citizens everywhere. We want to explore here what full connectivity will mean for citizens in the future, how they will react to it and what consequences it will have for dictators and democrats alike.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“We have only begun to encounter the realities of a connected world: the good, the bad and the worrisome.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Moore’s Law, the rule of thumb in the technology industry, tells us that processor chips—the small circuit boards that form the backbone of every computing device—double in speed every eighteen months. That means a computer in 2025 will be sixty-four times faster than it is in 2013. Another predictive law, this one of photonics (regarding the transmission of information), tells us that the amount of data coming out of fiber-optic cables, the fastest form of connectivity, doubles roughly every nine months. Even if these laws have natural limits, the promise of exponential growth unleashes possibilities in graphics and virtual reality that will make the online experience as real as real life, or perhaps even better. Imagine having the holodeck from the world of Star Trek, which was a fully immersive virtual-reality environment for those aboard a ship, but this one is able to both project a beach landscape and re-create a famous Elvis Presley performance in front of your eyes. Indeed, the next moments in our technological evolution promise to turn a host of popular science-fiction concepts into science facts: driverless cars, thought-controlled robotic motion, artificial intelligence (AI) and fully integrated augmented reality, which promises a visual overlay of digital information onto our physical environment. Such developments will join with and enhance elements of our natural world. This is our future, and these remarkable things are already beginning to take shape. That is what makes working in the technology industry so exciting today. It’s not just because we have a chance to invent and build amazing new devices or because of the scale of technological and intellectual challenges we will try to conquer; it’s because of what these developments will mean for the world.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“For the third type of coping strategy, at the societal level, we need to ask how non-state actors (such as communities and nonprofit organizations) will respond to the consequences of the data revolution. We think a wave of civil-society organizations will emerge in the next decade designed to shield connected citizens from their governments and from themselves. Powerful lobbying groups will advocate content and privacy laws. Rights organizations that document repressive surveillance tactics will call for better citizen protection. There”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Only when we have their attention can we hope to win their hearts and minds.”
― Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“We are what we tweet.”
― Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“This disparity between power in the real world and power in the virtual world presents opportunities for some new or underappreciated actors, including small states looking to punch above their weight and would-be states with a lot of courage.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“the online world, shared cultural and normative sensibilities create a gravitational pull among states, including those who might not otherwise have reason to band together.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Companies will have to learn how to manage public expectations of the possibilities and limits of their products.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“While all of this digital chaos will be a nuisance to democratic societies, it will not destroy the democratic system. Institutions and polities will be left intact, if slightly battered. And once democracies determine the appropriate laws to regulate and control new trends, the result may even be an improvement, with a strengthened social contract and greater efficiency and transparency in society. But this will take time, because norms are not quick to change, and each democracy will move at its own pace.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Since information wants to be free, don’t write anything down you don’t want read back to you in court or printed on the front page of a newspaper, as the saying goes. In the future this adage will broaden to include not just what you say and write, but the websites you visit, who you include in your online network, what you “like,” and what others who are connected to you do, say and share. People”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“The option to “delete” data is largely an illusion—lost files, deleted e-mails and erased text messages can be recovered with minimal effort.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“All of those connections will create massive amounts of data—a data revolution, some call it—and empower citizens in ways never before imagined. Yet despite these advancements, a central and singular caveat exists: The impact of this data revolution will be to strip citizens of much of their control over their personal information in virtual space, and that will have significant consequences in the physical world.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“In the next decade, the world’s virtual population will outnumber the population of Earth. Practically every person will be represented in multiple ways online, creating vibrant and active communities of interlocking interests that reflect and enrich our world.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“The advance of connectivity will have an impact far beyond the personal level; the ways that the physical and virtual worlds coexist, collide and complement each other will greatly affect how citizens and states behave in the coming decades.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“The vast majority of us will increasingly find ourselves living, working and being governed in two worlds at once. In the virtual world we will all experience some kind of connectivity, quickly and through a variety of means and devices. In the physical world we will still have to contend with geography, randomness of birth (some born as rich people in rich countries, the majority as poor people in poor countries), bad luck and the good and bad sides of human nature.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“By 2025, the majority of the world’s population will, in one generation, have gone from having virtually no access to unfiltered information to accessing all of the world’s information through a device that fits in the palm of the hand. If the current pace of technological innovation is maintained, most of the projected eight billion people on Earth will be online.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Uyanmak için normalde çalar saat kullanmıyor olacaksınız. Onun yerine taze pişirilmiş bir kahve kokusu, otomatik açılan perdeler sayesinde odaya dolan gün ışığı ve ileri teknoloji ürünü yatağınızın yumuşak sırt masajıyla açacaksınız gözlerinizi. Büyük olasılıkla dinlenmiş olarak kalkacaksınız yataktan, çünkü yatağın içinde, uyku ritminizi izleyerek uyanma anınızı bir REM döngüsünü bozmayacak şekilde titizlikle ayarlayan özel bir sensör bulunacak”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“There are an untold number of cultural similarities that have never been fully explored because of the difficulty of communication; in a future revolutionary setting, seemingly random connections between distant populations or people will entail knowledge transfer, outsourcing certain types of duties and amplifying the movement’s message in a new and unexpected way.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“The majority of the world’s Internet users encounter some form of censorship—also known by the euphemism “filtering”—but what that actually looks like depends on a country’s policies and its technological infrastructure. Not all or even most of that filtering is political censorship; progressive countries routinely block a modest number of sites, such as those featuring child pornography.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“We have often described the Internet as a “lawless” space, ungoverned and ungovernable by design. Its decentralized makeup and constantly mutating interlinking structure make government attempts to “control” it futile. But”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“On the world stage, the most significant impact of the spread of communication technologies will be the way they help reallocate the concentration of power away from states and institutions and transfer it to individuals.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“continuous scans of the brain to measure changes in blood flow) could control a robot hundreds of miles away just by imagining moving different parts of his body. The subject could see from the robot’s perspective, thanks to a camera on its head, and when he thought about moving his arm or his legs, the robot would move correspondingly almost instantaneously. The possibilities of thought-controlled motion, not only for “surrogates” like separate robots but also for prosthetic limbs, are particularly exciting in what they portend for mobility-challenged or “locked in” individuals—spinal-cord-injury patients, amputees and others who cannot communicate or move in their current physical state.”
― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business