Name: Clay Shirky: Institutions...
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Description: And the tension here is between institution as enabler and institution as obstacle. When you're dealing with the left-hand edge of one of these distributions, when you're dealing with the people who spend a lot of time producing a lot of the material you want, that's an institution-as-enabler world.

Laura Mvula

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

British Musician

Joshua Ferris

The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

American Author

Sundar Pichai

For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.

Indian Businessman

Margrethe Vestager

Technology is, in many respects, an enabler for an open, transparent society. But it's also an enabler for supervision to a completely unforeseen degree. And for commercialising personal space to an unforeseen degree.

Danish Politician

Lake Bell

I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

American Actress

Tae Yoo

Together, with technology as an enabler, we can help our veterans find meaningful civilian careers that match their skills and interest.

American Businesswoman

Glennon Doyle Melton

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

Jane Chen

Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

James Dyson

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

British Designer

Daryl Hannah

Emphasizes someone's or something's role in creating positive change or making progress.

Positive Impact

Used in various contexts, not limited to technology or innovation, but many spheres such as education or health.

Broad Usage

Highlights the role of support in allowing others to achieve goals or do things they wouldn't otherwise manage.

Empowering

Stresses the undesirable support given to bad habits or harmful behaviors.

Negative Assistance

Use carefully, it can imply blame or irresponsibility towards the enabler.

Caution in Usage

Often used in psychology or counseling to describe behaviors contributing to another’s addiction or problems.

Psychological Context

 And the tension here is between institution as enabler and institution as obstacle. When you're dealing with the left-hand edge of one of these distributions, when you're dealing with the people who spend a lot of time producing a lot of the material you want, that's an institution-as-enabler world.

Clay Shirky: Institutions...

 these gaps, they form a soil that's ready for some incredible empowerment. So when capital and investment become focused on the needs of people who are hanging to the bottom rungs of an economic ladder, that's when we start to see the internet truly become a job creator, an education enabler

The rapid growth of the...

 And people started to preorder it, but more importantly, they started to prepay it. So the finance we made with the jewelry helped us to realize, to build the first tower. And that's powerful. So the waste the activator, it was the enabler. Also, the feedback from the community --

A smog vacuum cleaner...

 public sector really though it's related to the previous point if you don't have the view or framing of the public sector as a co-creator of value and at best think of it as an enabler a facilitator a de-risk er then there isn't really the justification to invest in house in

The COVID-19 crisis is a...

 first came the infrastructure, then came the industry around it, the brothels -- it's a bit like the Internet today, right? — and everything else that worked with bars, saloons, etc. The gold of today is mobile, and mobile is the enabler that makes all of this possible.

Toby Shapshak: You don't...

 to all segments. And technology can be a great enabler in doing that. And in addition to that -- it's not an either-or -- we believe that we're going to generate very attractive returns, which is important if we're building enduring businesses.

How Great Leaders...

 that actually lets you delve into the semantic structure of music, play with it, understand it. It's no wonder that everybody's getting into it, right? Even the three wise men. OK, the second big enabler, and this is where I told a big lie.

Richard Baraniuk on...

 are children and education. And once I put that in context, I'd like to tell you a little bit about why I believe technology is a tremendous enabler; a very powerful tool to help address some of these challenges.

Hector Ruiz: The power...

 lot of money but it turns out that it costs a lot more to get to the moon quickly we realized that we needed to build a business to make that possible and the XPrize became an enabler and a

If We Colonize the Moon,...

 there are many such similar stories through these experiences I've come to learn that technology itself is only part of the solution it's an enabler but for technology to be

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