Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Ithiel de Sola Pool
Born: October 26, 1917
Died: 1984 (aged 66)
Bio: Ithiel de Sola Pool was a revolutionary figure in the field of social sciences. Pool led groundbreaking research on technology and its effects on society.
Known for:
- Technologies of Freedom (1983)
- Forecasting the Telephone (1983)
- Politics in wired nations
- Symbols of democracy (1952)







