We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online. Joichi Ito More Quotes by Joichi Ito More Quotes From Joichi Ito You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn. Joichi Ito pencils mountain needs It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. Joichi Ito rights would-be law I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker. Joichi Ito marketing media believe The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. Joichi Ito fighting trying ideas The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type. Joichi Ito type important school The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. Joichi Ito rights believe ideas Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee. Joichi Ito power-relationships LinkedIn allows you to search histories and CVs in your network - it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know. Joichi Ito people way interesting I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog. Joichi Ito groups roles bridges The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing. Joichi Ito failing cost risk I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring. Joichi Ito broads boring feels We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. Joichi Ito japan fighting opportunity For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable. Joichi Ito korea japan believe I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea. Joichi Ito korea ties strong Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. Joichi Ito machines media people I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward. Joichi Ito communication trying moving When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. Joichi Ito creativity form culture I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. Joichi Ito broken-heart japan democracy Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? Joichi Ito cash democracy media There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. Joichi Ito now aggression argument fighting
