Alex Campbell Quotes

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

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

Distance is collapsing in our world. People all over the world are having difficulty imagining their future, and their governments just tell them about the virtues of the past.

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

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

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

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

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.

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.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

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

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

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.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

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

Globalization is the speed of light.

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

… ideas. commodities even, refuse the bounds of a nation. All are inextricably connected…. This is true especially of our modern world with its complex commerce and means of intellectual connection.

I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.