Jim Yong Kim Quotes

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.

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

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.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

We live in the physical world, the age of the Internet, and it's very easy to disappear from view and isolate ourselves from the rest of world and become invisible.

Information technology has politicized the world's population.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

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.

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

I am a child of the 21st century.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

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.

Today, no country can ever truly cut itself off from the global media or from external sources of information. Trends that start in one corner of the world are rapidly replicated thousands of miles away.

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.