Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

The forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things.

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

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

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 have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

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.

In my mind globalization means returning the industrial revolution back to square one.

Luddism is no longer with us, but today we seem to be overtaken by its opposite, the inevitability of technological change coupled with the blind belief in capitalism's ability to provide us with all we need.

Radio enables people to hear all evil, television enables them to see all evil, and the jet plane enables them to go off and do all evil.

Globalization is a harsh god.

We should leave this archaic, developing world mentality behind. If you want to be a developed country, you have to learn to cope with the media.