iJustine Quotes

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

If you live in a big city, and you're surrounded by people, you're way more in touch with humanity than you would be if you lived in a very remote area and just spent all day long on the computer.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

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.

Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

What did you do to change the world today?

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

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."