Jon Batiste Quotes

Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

Millennials' tech and global savvy will make them instrumental in shaping our mobile future worldwide.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

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

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

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.

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

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

The young people today are the 21st century.