Kabir Bedi Quotes

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

Today, no country can ever truly cut itself off from the global media or from external sources of information. Trends that start in one corner of the world are rapidly replicated thousands of miles away.

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

There were no bubbles before there were media.

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

Technology has miniaturized the globe, reducing vast oceans to mere ponds. Distant countries are now almost neighbors as our bodies travel faster than the speed of sound and our voices at the speed of light. ... Today the world is not much bigger than a ball spinning on the finger of science.

Every expansive era in the history of mankind has coincided with the operation of factors which have tended to eliminate distance between peoples and classes previously hemmed off from one another.

the day Johannes Gutenberg finished his wooden printing press in 1440. Western civilization turned onto a path toward more efficient, accessible communication of knowledge.]

Overall, the world has never been better informed.

This [the advent of radio] was the first time in the history of mankind that people in different places heard the same thing at the same time.

Distance is collapsing in our world. People all over the world are having difficulty imagining their future, and their governments just tell them about the virtues of the past.

By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

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

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc.

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.

For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

When I was growing up, I had three channels, and I didn't know what happened in the Philippines instantly if it happened. Now you can be on the Internet and find out what's going on in Zimbabwe. It's changed.

The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.