Nina Garcia Quotes

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

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

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

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

The great growling engine of change - technology.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

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

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

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

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

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.

This is … a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job — the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried — made obsolete — faster than ever

Please, join the modern world.

The bridge to the 21st century turned out to be a toll bridge.

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

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.