Hubert Burda Quotes

Our lives are slowly but surely becoming connected to each other.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

I love connected culture.

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.

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.

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

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 once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

This is a very different world. Much of it is new. What has happened is that information technology has politicized the world…It’s a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries.

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

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.

Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.

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

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.