Digital age Quotes

• Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Government
  • Digital age
  • American revolutionaries

• Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Knowledge
  • Ideas
  • Social Status

• Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Diplomacy
  • Database
  • Ruling elites

• In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Gossip
  • Limit
  • Private

• It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Information
  • Digital age
  • Cost money

• I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.

  

  Steven Hall
  • Book
  • Film
  • Digital age