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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

I remember being given a demo of the 'World Wide Web' at Peter Gabriel's studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

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.

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

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

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.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

Overall, the world has never been better informed.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.