Thomas Friedman Quotes

Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

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.

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.

On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.

Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.