Don Tapscott Quotes

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

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

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

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

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

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

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."