Alvin Toffler Quotes

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

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

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

Globalization is the speed of light.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.

I get really excited imagining what we can do in the future with broadband.

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.

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.

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.

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

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.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

Please, join the modern world.

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.

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

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

We have made a huge amount of progress over the last 50 years by enabling trade, by enabling kind of collaboration and learning. And actually, in fact, when you look at your average 30-year-old today, they're much better off than a 30-year-old 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because of progress in technology and health care and all the rest of this.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.