The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.
In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.
Never in history has distance meant less.
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
The world map looks smaller than ever before.
The world has grown frightening small in compass.
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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.
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.
When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.
The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
