It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. – Esther Dyson
But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. – Esther Dyson
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we dont expect the world that were familiar with to be perfect. – Esther Dyson
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970