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Quotes About Connectivity

When gamers can play a game together with all of their friends, regardless of the devices they own, you have a much more compelling social experience. That applies to all multiplayer games.
~ Tim Sweeney
By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
~ Hans Vestberg
Development of seamless physical connectivity is key for achieving regional growth, employment, and prosperity.
~ Sushma Swaraj
I am a not exactly a gadget freak and have the regular phones. But I keep multiple phones because if there's a network issue in one, then I can use another one.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution.
~ Borje Ekholm
Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.
~ Michael K. Powell
Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.
~ Douglas Alexander
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
~ Ethan Zuckerman
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
~ John McCarthy
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
~ William J. Clinton
Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
~ Vijay Mallya
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
~ Marc Andreessen
A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in the tombs around Mecca and 'Arabic' numerals in the 13th-century beams of Salisbury Cathedral tell us we have been interdependent not for decades but across millennia.
~ Bettany Hughes
On the Internet you can swap GPS details and use tools like Google Maps. It's amazing.
~ Charley Boorman
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
~ Thomas Friedman
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts," Tesla promised.
~ Sean Patrick
A successful, secure connectivity of the transnational links among South and Central Asia, and China, via Afghanistan, would revive the country's historical and natural hub position in the region. The sooner this happens, the better for the country
~ Shakib Noori
Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers.
~ Steven Magee
Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.
~ Susan Wojcicki
The internet has no centre and no hierarchy. All the computers that use it are equal – 'peers' in a network.
~ Matt Ridley
The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.
~ Steven D. Levitt
In many Islamic countries, attitudes toward women and minorities are improving (chapter 15)—slowly, but more detectably among women, the young, and the educated.105 The emancipative forces that liberalized the West, such as connectivity, education, mobility, and women's advancement, are not bypassing the Islamic world, and the moving sidewalk of generational replacement can outpace the walkers shambling along it.106
~ Steven Pinker
At the time of the report, the entire Arab world exported fewer manufactured goods than the Philippines, had poorer Internet connectivity than sub-Saharan Africa, registered 2 percent as many patents per year as South Korea, and translated about a fifth as many books into Arabic as Greece translates into Greek.
~ Steven Pinker