In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.
Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
Social change comes through people.
New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.