Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers to those sites. — 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
