Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

We are connecting everything to everything

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

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

I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.

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.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

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

The telegraph would bind man to his fellow-man in such bonds of amity as to put an end to war.

Men knew little, formerly, of what was passing beyond ... their own immediate neighborhood, but now, through the ... newspapers ... town and country, state and nation, and the most distant parts of the world are brought together, and whatever is new, rare and important, is conveyed with rapidity to every reader ... set forth in the most succinct manner, and in a style adapted to the comprehension of all.

With the Internet, you hear voices that you never knew were out there.

Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

I love how small the world is.

We are open to the world; the world is at our doorstep. It washes in, not just through the windows, but we are immersed in it completely - through the Internet, through the media, through people traveling, coming here, as well as Singaporeans going abroad.

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

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.

I love a cool cellphone as much as the next guy, but, god, I hate when it rings.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.