Outside My Box

“ We are the first generation of the Age of Information. This rightfully should scare the hell out of big companies who have basically controlled the flow of information for years.
With the internet, the average voter is starting to become more informed. No longer can Big Media like FOX and CNN spew their lies without being called out. With a more intelligent voter base comes a better America. ”

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The world has these judgements about what they don’t know because they fear what they don’t know. And… I sort of saw this social media landscape as an opportunity to connect with a lot of things and a lot of people that I had fear about.

I saw the potential of that being that someday, somebody may say “hey we are going to war with this country” and maybe because of social media I have a friend that’s there or I know somebody who’s there. That guy that was a foreigner to me, that I was afraid of, that was wearing a turbant right over there… And maybe I’m going to be the person that stands up and say “we can’t go blow those people up because my friend lives there”.

I see that potential in social media and in technology: to connect people, to bring people together.

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“ You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where “regulations and unnecessary costs” make it difficult for them. Jobs also criticized America’s education system, saying it was “crippled by union work rules,” noted Isaacson. “Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform.” Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year. ”

“ I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this. ”