Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature
Interpretation
New technologies empower us as a collective force in society.
Al Gore's quote emphasizes the significant impact that modern technologies have on our collective ability to effect change. By combining technological advancements with the power of large groups, humanity can harness this potential to address and solve complex challenges, thus positioning ourselves as a formidable force in the natural world.
In practice
During a technology conference, to highlight the importance of collaboration in innovation.
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: Itβs a process, not an event.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
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