- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information Quotes
What we know, how we get it, and who controls it.
These information quotes span a wartime account of physicists comparing notes across borders, a case for treating the internet as more than just open access to ideas, and technical descriptions of how scientists actually gather data, from nuclear radiation measurements to brain tissue analysis. See Internet for the modern angle on this theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Disrupted
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have witnessed a stunning reversal of power between mainstream and social media: The ability to go direct to end users of information through social channels radically disrupted the mainstream news agenda.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief that elites have access to superior information and their interests are interconnected with those of the broader public.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day.
- Sharing
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- Nov 07, 2020
QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.
- Containing
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.
- Containing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cell-site data - like mailing addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses - are information that facilitate personal communications rather than part of the content of those communications themselves. The government's collection of business records containing these data, therefore, is not a search.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020