St. Lucia Quotes

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.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

In earlier times there was one king and thousands of artists painting his palace. Now you’ve got thousands of artists painting for millions of people.

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

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond that, and he didn't care, so that leaders were able to guide their countries almost irrespective of what people really thought because they weren't involved in it. Now, everybody knows what's happening instantaneously.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.