Jacob Weisberg Quotes

The government invented the Internet.

When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

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

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

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

The internet's completely over.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.