W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.

Never in history has distance meant less.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

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.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

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

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

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 world has gotten so interwoven.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

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

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

Today, our world is more interconnected than ever. This offers many opportunities; it creates wealth and new freedoms. Yet our world is also vulnerable, full of friction points and conflicts of interest.

I know how inter-dependent the world is.

The world is moving ahead to become more integrated and connected, where movement of goods and people is becoming easier with each passing day.

In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.