Terry Riley Quotes

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

There were no bubbles before there were media.

Distance is collapsing in our world. People all over the world are having difficulty imagining their future, and their governments just tell them about the virtues of the past.

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work, community, family, and identity - or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

When I was growing up, I had three channels, and I didn't know what happened in the Philippines instantly if it happened. Now you can be on the Internet and find out what's going on in Zimbabwe. It's changed.

Consumers around the world are excited to share common experiences.

I think what's different about this time is that at least pre-Internet there were more similarities between one generation and the next. And now, I think that gap has grown in a very significant way.

I think the '80s works for a TV show because it's the last time the world was simple. It was before the Internet really changed everything and made the world really small.

We've all seen these projections of how society is going to look in 50 years. We're all going to have to deal with each other culturally.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.