Dan Brown Quotes

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

Tech is all about building human connections.

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

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

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

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

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

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