Joel Osteen Quotes

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

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

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

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

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 era, we have more choice than any group of people ever. When you are out at night, anyone in the universe can contact you instantly. Think about how crazy that is compared to even a few decades ago.

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.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

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

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

I was not thinking about the age of Internet when I was making the fall-winter 2012 collection.

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.