James Surowiecki Quotes

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

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

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

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

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.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

The Internet is the dynamic engine that is driving our economy today and we must keep that open.

Just don’t bet against the Internet.

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

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

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

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.

Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.