The World Motivation
I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.
“I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.”
— Eric Schmidt · Comments
I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.
People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.
I've definitely had inappropriate comments. I've had a producer tell me: 'I'm thinking about you constantly.' He didn't say: 'I'm thinking about you for this project.' He said: 'I'm thinking of you constantly.' It's definitely inappropriate. You can't say that to an actor.
If I looked like a Victoria's Secret model, I would still get nasty comments.
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.