Adam Cohen Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Adam Cohen Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior. Adam Cohen badbehaviorimportantpeople An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy. Adam Cohen democracyblackrainpeople Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal. Adam Cohen personalservingprivacyinformation The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully. Adam Cohen storymoraltechnologyimportant The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone. Adam Cohen dot-comeraworstgone Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet. Adam Cohen dayservicehomenight People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's. Adam Cohen greathealthheartpeople Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge. Adam Cohen placemedicalscienceknowledge In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created. Adam Cohen controlinternetinformationworld
