Rainbow Rowell Quotes

I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

I haven't tweeted once in my life, but I'm sick of hearing about it already. What once may have been the cool way of letting a hundred people know that you're about to go mow your lawn now has the feel of a used-to-be-fresh means of communicating. So yesterday, like two-way pagers. And AOL.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

Social media has given us the world at our fingertips every morning. And we watch it change, live. In the morning, in the old days, we'd read the 'Post,' and that was what we had.

When we began, we used chatrooms on AOL and Yahoo! and nowadays, we have dozens and dozens of ways to communicate. Technology has improved - for everything from the cameras to the microphones. It's a whole 'nother playing field now.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.