Don Tapscott Quotes

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• When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children are prodigies!' But…
• These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.
• To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.
• Your network is your filter.
• Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
• All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.
• Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
• You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed…
• Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better…
• Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.
• Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human…
• To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.
• Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives.…
• Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.
• Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.
• The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.
• Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be…
• If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which…
• In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country -…
• In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded…

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