John Agyekum Kufuor Quotes

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

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

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.

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

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

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.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

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

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

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

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.

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

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

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.

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

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

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

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

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

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.