John Landgraf Quotes

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

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

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

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

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.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

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

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

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

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

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.

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

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

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.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

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.

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

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

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.