James Gleick Quotes

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

In this era of instant communications, the people want instant results.

People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.

I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real world, is something my students just don't recognise.

'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

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Globalization is the speed of light.

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live' technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one.

All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.