Technology

I believe that if we want technological innovation to live up to its potential, we have to ensure that everyone has access to it. If technology is just for the privileged few, then it will concentrate power in the hands of those who already have it.

Co-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate

In rich countries, 'innovation' often means finding a better way of doing things. But in developing countries, it can mean finding a way to do things at all.

Co-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate

I do agree though, that in recent years receiving abuse online has been normalised to the extent that I expect it and know there's very little I can do to stop people from saying these things.

I noticed trolling because I was a troll when I was a teenager. I was one of those guys who spent a lot of time on forums at the weekend – trolling people. Back then, it was more like pranking; sending people a dud-link that would send them to a weird cartoon or porn site.

Online trolling and abuse is a real problem now. A lot of people who want to express an opinion now are fearful that they'll get piled-on. And there's no real immunity from it.

British comedian, writer, and television personality; co-founder of Fantasy Football League

I first heard about Twitter through a journalist friend of mine called India Knight. She said, 'it's fantastic, like a cocktail party where all of your best friends have turned up!'- she was right, it was like that, for about 15 seconds….

British comedian, writer, and television personality; co-founder of Fantasy Football League

Inside all of us though, is that inner deviant – who wants to unleash chaos, collect power and acquire status. The internet provides a perfect medium for this deviant (our inner 'troll') to flourish – giving anonymity and 'identity loss' – breaking that social contract and freeing us to test the boundaries of the acceptable.

The only way to engineer virality and make a product work is to understand the consumer, and that changes from city to city, from country to country.

Founder and CEO of dating app Bumble, feminist entrepreneur

The most important part of being at a festival, is being completely present in those moments. If you put your phone in your pocket, you'll probably have a better time.

Co-organizer of Glastonbury Festival with her father Michael Eavis

The digital world has democratized content – it's now available on every platform all the time – and we're going to see a whole raft of new stars, because talent can be rewarded.

Indian Film Producer & Head of Walt Disney Company India

There's 6,000 times more energy hitting the surface of the Earth than we consume as a species. The poorest countries in the world are also the sunniest, which is a powerful asset.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

It's the convergence of these technologies that creates waves on top of waves of capability, which will change our world – every industry, our economy, our government, our health, our families… everything is beginning to change.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

As humans, we've evolved in a world where the pace of change was slow. Our minds are not structured for the pace of rapid change that we're seeing and, increasingly, will experience. One way that we deal with the accelerating rate of change is by sort of riding on top of that tsunami of change rather than being crushed by it.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

We're moving towards a world of increasing abundance. The poorest and wealthiest can access the same information because of Google; the same information Larry Page has! That same democratisation and demonetisation will occur in other critically important areas of our life.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

At first, the 100 thousand million, million keys you would need to search might appear impossible, but Moore's law was increasing processing power and we quickly figured that if you could search a million keys per second on a chip, and you bought a million chips, you could search a million, million keys per second.

Co-inventor of Public-Key Cryptography & Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

Last week I was asked to help the NHS get video-consultations up and running in every GP practice in the country, in one week.

Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine & Implementation Science at Oxford University