Patricia Espinosa Quotes

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

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

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.

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

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.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

I love how small the world is.

Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

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.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

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

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

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

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

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.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

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