Quotes About Connectivity

We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.

The Internet empowers people to have a direct impact on an emergency situation on a global scale.

Every major car company is trying to figure out, 'How do I deploy the Internet into the car? How do I get cars to talk to each other? How do I get more safety? How do I get the ownership experience to change dramatically as a result?'

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

In the future, an artist will be able to perform for the entire world in one date. For the fan, it will be a fully immersive experience - through a pair of glasses or whatever the device.

The real agent of change is not computers per se but rather the computation that we are installing into even the most mundane constituents of our everyday surroundings. As we have seen, we are at the point that it is now often cheaper to manufacture digital information processing into an object than it to leave it out. Microelectronics permit even trivial products to be deeply complex and connectible—and that is both the promise and the problem. That

Things get even messier when linked into networks, which can literally scatter one's mind even at today's rudimentary levels of connectivity. The "transactive memory system" called Google is already rewiring the parts of our brains that used to remember facts locally; now those circuits store search protocols for remote access of a distributed database.74 And Google doesn't come anywhere close to the connectivity of a real hive mind.

That whole cellular idea is idiotic. Who wants to carry around a phone all the time? I don't want people calling me wherever I am.

Today's economic landscape is being shaped by two powerful forces—technology and globalization.

The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.

The roads for connectivity are vital. We have partners and we have revenue that we will make sure will come in to build our roads.

Our railways maintain a healthy economy and society. They keep businesses running and families close. They're a vital public service and must be treated as such.

Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor plumbing.

The Internet is vital to economic development, health, education, and to be honest, all areas of our modern life.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.

People's access to social media should not permanently be restricted.

As we put autonomous cars on the road, connect Alexas to our lights and our thermostats, put ill-protected Internet-connected video cameras on our houses, and conduct our financial lives over our cell phones, our vulnerabilities expand exponentially.

We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

Our bet is on the future of micronetworks.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century.

My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line.