Padgett Powell Quotes

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

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.

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 think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

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

There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

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

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

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

The remote area today is more proximate to economic potential. A fiber-optic cable can go where no road or rail ever has.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The moment instant communications was within the grasp of all, America was bonded and annealed into an almost indivisible one.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

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