It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can't magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth party. — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
I dislike the phrase 'social media.' 'Social media' is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
Privacy and security are the ultimate shared responsibility, and everyone - including governments, companies, and citizens - have an important role to play. — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
I think companies need to put up tools that put privacy and security in the hands of their users and make it easy to… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars... It's the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns. — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens. — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
Technology is a tool, and it's a platform. Nobody gets arrested for being a blogger; people get arrested for dissent. Nobody gets arrested for… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
The importance of human judgment does not evaporate in the future, and as connected individuals, we will have to exercise sound judgment about what… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
I want to use the best technology we have at our disposal to begin to take on trolling and other nefarious tactics that give… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that's faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you'd have to… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
