Individual Quote by John W. Thompson

“Nothing evinced so far justifies the catastrophic damage that the Snowden leaks have done to national security—the worst disaster in the history of American…

— Edward Lucas

“Technology is worthless if people have no humanity to connect with.”

— VD

“There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“Snowden evidently knew of WikiLeaks, a niche transparency website”

— Luke Harding

“Technology makes us hyperconnected and overly available.”

— Hilaria Baldwin

“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare. It is overwhelmed by data. The NSA may be spying on our every word,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We are not as strong as technology's pull.

— Sherry Turkle

“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its…

— Glenn Greenwald

A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in…

— Glenn Greenwald

While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Indeed, the big point of this chapter is not about technology per se. No technology, no matter how amazing—not computers, not telecommunications, not robotics,…

— James C. Collins

The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great…

— Laura Poitras