Communication technologies are necessary, but not sufficient, for us humans to get along with each other.
90th Birthday Reflections (2007)
Kontext: Communication technologies are necessary, but not sufficient, for us humans to get along with each other. This is why we still have many disputes and conflicts in the world. Technology tools help us to gather and disseminate information, but we also need qualities like tolerance and compassion to achieve greater understanding between peoples and nations.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we've learnt something from the most barbaric century in history — the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation…
„Mají-li spolu lidé dobře vycházet, je nezbytné, aby si každý zachoval svoji svobodu.“
„Když mají spolu lidé dobře vycházet, je nezbytně nutné, aby si každý zachoval svou svobodu.“
„My musíme technologii ovládat, a ne se stát jejími otroky.“
Originál: (en) What it comes down to for me is: Will the technologies of communication and culture — and especially popular music, which is a vast and beloved enterprise — help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?
Zdroj: Penthouse Magazine, září 1988 (anglicky)
„Když se lidé spolu dovedou smát, pak spolu dovedou i žít.“
„Bude dvojjazyčná společnost katastrofa? Ne nezbytně. Ale bude to jiná země.“
o rozšiřování španělštiny v USA
Originál: (en) Will a bilingual society be a disaster? Not necessarily. But it will be a different a country.
Zdroj: [Dyson, Michael Eric, 2007, Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson, Basic Civitas Books, 145, en, 978-04-65002-06-1]
„Lidé se spolu někdy potkávají.“
