Don Tapscott Quotes

The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

I wouldn't be anywhere without the Internet.

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

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

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

The Internet creates transparency, creates a change of mentality, brings people together.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

So much of the world is digital.