Geoff Mulgan Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, People, Imagination

  "Credit where it's due" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2006.

• The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, People, Empowerment

• Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Ideas, People

  "Is crowd-sourcing the answer to restoring trust in government?". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 29, 2012.

• Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Simple, People

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

• The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Government, Cities

• There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Rewards, Digital

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