Brent Scowcroft Quotes

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

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.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

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

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

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

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

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.

Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

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 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.

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.

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.