Mohsin Hamid Quotes

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

Do you believe that life today is the same as it was 10 centuries ago? This tremendous change was produced by the West. Who else produced it?

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

The world is rapidly changing - and with it, we face new global challenges.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation - I have done it myself.

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.