The Silicon Valley companies are not understating that they are so politically and socially and culturally central in the world. They would probably never have thought that they would become like this. But now that they are, what are they… — 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 his company promoted some of the things that elected Donald Trump. You don't see that much of these apologizing from Google. From Mark Zuckerberg you are hearing a little bit more of it, but he is… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share
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 - very few people, mainly white men in Silicon Valley - then it is a global village build upon the ideas, visions, words, and protocols of the few. So it's not global - it's like Epcot center.… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share
When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers and villagers in India. In the process of doing that, I realized that my reference point was internal to the laboratory, rather than in the communities that I was wanting to serve. I realized that I could no… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share
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
