Able Quote by Hans Rosling

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical.…

— Noam Chomsky

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical.…

— Noam Chomsky

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to…

— Noam Chomsky

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on…

— Randal Marlin

“Consider this oddly neglected fact: the West was acquired, conquested, and largely consolidated into the nation coincident with the greatest breakthrough in the history…

— Elliott West

The government invented the Internet.

— Jon Meacham

I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used it. He…

— Nicholas Soames

When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very…

— Marc Andreessen

“No two generations in history have experienced such a highlighted cognitive dissonance, because never has change occurred at so rapid a pace. Look at…

— Michael Harris

The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.

— Lee Zeldin

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

— Tom Peters