Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

I think as we all work to learn and navigate the future towards a world where AI fulfills its promise, the best way to do that is to work together and to share information and learn together. It'll speed up our ability to get ahead of this so that we can do a better job of setting our associates up for success.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.