Nelson DeMille Quotes

The world is becoming smaller every day.

Technology has miniaturized the globe, reducing vast oceans to mere ponds. Distant countries are now almost neighbors as our bodies travel faster than the speed of sound and our voices at the speed of light. ... Today the world is not much bigger than a ball spinning on the finger of science.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

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.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

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

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

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

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.