Alex Steffen Quotes

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

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.

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

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.

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

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

I just find it so weird that I can come to another continent and have people turn up. I guess it's just the internet... It just makes it so available to everyone.

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.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.

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.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

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

The Internet has heralded a revolution in our society. It has transformed the way we do business, entertain, communicate, and travel. In many ways, the change has been positive. The web has brought new freedoms, spurred economic growth, and extended the boundaries of knowledge.

The Internet removed geography as a significant obstacle that formerly prevented out-of-the-way places from being active players in the New Economy.

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

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.