I am a former engineer and I was really excited about the possibility of building better technology to serve humanity. A lot of us as engineers have this belief that if you build a tool you somehow can empower humans… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
This is what engineers in Silicon Valley typically do. "Ok, well, of course there are some problems of our technology because it is so excellent and is so global so we are just gonna build a better one." — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
We are at a moment that some of the Silicon Valley companies are feeling the pressure. These days the founder of Twitter apologized that… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Marshall McLuhan prediction was some kind of electronic communication technology would emerge to instantaneously connect the world so much so that the whole globe… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge. — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
If you create networks that allow people in their own local systems to have power and agency and sovereignty in their own systems. The… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
The Silicon Valley companies are not understating that they are so politically and socially and culturally central in the world. They would probably never… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
The point I'm trying to make is if these networks of communication technologies are owned, monetized, surveilled, and classified by those with power -… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers and villagers… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
If you share information widely, but you present that information in ways that fits your own view, you're actually still misrepresenting. So instead what… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
In its early days the Internet seem to be a counter cultural space and an anti corporate space, now is the place for corporate… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
You could kind of be free and expressive but you already knew when you joined the internet, you knew that you should not be… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
I am a former engineer and I was really excited about the possibility of building better technology to serve humanity. A lot of us… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
I'm really interested not just in privacy for the individual but respect for the local communities. And I think we have a problem with… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
This is what engineers in Silicon Valley typically do. "Ok, well, of course there are some problems of our technology because it is so… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Fake news is a product of the internet that is not transparent. Fake news can spread online because as users we have no idea… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
