Constant Quote by Rebecca Solnit

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

— Mukesh Ambani

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

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system,…

— Nikola Tesla

Did people waste time before the internet existed?

— Matt McGorry

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went…

— Thomas Friedman

How did we kill time before smartphones? I honestly can't recall. I have a vague recollection of flipping through magazines in waiting-room-type situations, but…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter…

— Jennifer Egan

Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having…

— Tod Machover

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about…

— John McGahern

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

“As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is…

— Greg McKeown