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Technology push also brings with it a range of unintended or unexpected consequences, particularly at a time (as we are now) where technology can grow from the germination of an idea to…
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You have to put people first; you have to think about the society you're living in, what's good about it, and what kind of world you want. You have to also consider how that technology can have a positive impact on the world.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
If I could snap my fingers today and make every STEM program in the world into a STEAM program I would do it now. The idea that science, technology and mathematics are enough to build a world forgets the importance of the humanities.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
The internet is humanity at scale and without limits; and that will require common goals, and common discussion for us to determine healthy ways forward. The internet is magnified with human will, and we have every opportunity to allow it to become a democratizing force for humanity.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
We don't currently have the accountability mechanisms in our digital life that we do in our physical life. Physical society has had tens of thousands of years to build cultures and norms, but we haven't yet figured out how this works online.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
It's shocking how quickly this innovation [the internet] has become woven into the foundation of everything that we do. In just 30 years, the internet and the world wide web have gone from being generally unknown to consumers to being involved in every aspect of life, and necessary for almost everything. There is no healthy society without a healthy internet.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
The systems we now use exist at a scale that's actually hard to comprehend as human beings. On Facebook, you are one of several billion people and at that scale, it's easy to become a number, or simply a wallet. At that scale, it's very hard to make any meaningful change as an individual.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
The 'Silicon Valley' mindset is one where you race ahead and build technology, and if people adopt it and use it, you scale. Success in this mindset is measured in terms of numbers of users, revenue and valuation. How do these measures illustrate social good though?
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
Technologies are emerging and moving so fast, that it's very hard to build accountability mechanisms; not least because technologies can become ubiquitous before we understand them.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
We don't currently have the accountability mechanisms in our digital life that we do in our physical life.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
The systems we now use exist at a scale that's actually hard to comprehend as human beings. On Facebook, you are one of several billion people and at that scale, it's easy to become a number, or simply a wallet.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
There is no healthy society without a healthy internet.
— Mitchell BakerCEO and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
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