Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're looking at the dawn of a new arms race. For example, Germany technically opposes the US space militarization program, but is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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