Paul Virilio Quotes

Globalization is the speed of light.

Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

The railway, the steamship, and there telegraph are rapidly mobilizing the people of the earth. The nations are coming our of their isolation, and distances which separated the different races are rapidly giving way before the extension of communication.

Never in history has distance meant less.

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.

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

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.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

We cannot turn back the tides of globalization any more than King Knute [995-1035] could turn back the tides.

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

Men knew little, formerly, of what was passing beyond ... their own immediate neighborhood, but now, through the ... newspapers ... town and country, state and nation, and the most distant parts of the world are brought together, and whatever is new, rare and important, is conveyed with rapidity to every reader ... set forth in the most succinct manner, and in a style adapted to the comprehension of all.

Globalization punctures borders.