Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

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

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

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

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.

So much of the world is digital.

Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.

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.

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.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.

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

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

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

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.