Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in rural Iowa and be into break dancing because of YouTube - that was a really simple, profound idea.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

We have radio and TV in every single part of Mexico. And in every one of the 185,000 schools of Mexico there is an electronic blackboard connected to the Internet—every school.

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

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

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.

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

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

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

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

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

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.

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

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

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.