Science & Tech Quote by Major Owens

Major Owens is doing a politician’s most underappreciated magic trick: making the future sound both urgent and nonthreatening. The sentence is a tour through mediums that, in his era, signaled accelerating power - photography and film with their documentary authority, video with its immediacy, and the Internet with its disruptive promise. By stacking them into a single breathless list, Owens performs modernity. The content matters less than the cadence: a catalog meant to reassure listeners that whoever “is involved in the program” won’t be left behind.

The specific intent is institutional. He’s not celebrating art for art’s sake; he’s arguing for capacity-building - teaching people to wield communications tools “in the most up-to-date modern ways,” a phrase that sounds redundant because it’s designed as a shield. Redundancy here is political strategy: it preempts objections about novelty by framing novelty as responsibility. In public-sector language, “communications and transmission of information” is a proxy for access, literacy, and power without having to say the more polarizing words: inequality, gatekeeping, propaganda, surveillance.

Subtext: control the channel, control the story. Owens implicitly treats media not as entertainment but as civic infrastructure. That aligns with the late-20th-century shift when representation moved from institutions to networks, and when communities historically spoken about could begin speaking for themselves - if they had the tools. His broad “anything related” also signals an awareness of how quickly formats mutate; the program’s mission is adaptability, not mastery of any one gadget. It’s a bet that citizenship in the coming century will be mediated, and that being untrained will mean being unheard.