Quotes About Connectivity

Quality broadband service is key to growing our economy, and learning, competing, and succeeding in today's digital world.

Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.

We have a highly competitive set of products and services ideally suited to the world of 5G.

The sleeping or relaxed brain cuts off distractions and turns inward, as the right hemisphere becomes more active, leading to periods of greater connectivity.

Testing LAN Neighbors with Standard Ping

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.

The house seemed to be wired for Wi-Fi,

the bicycle enabled more and more young men living in villages to court girls in distant villages thus giving a wider choice of mate and resulting in a more widespread and therefore richer human gene pool.

after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned"6 —MARSHALL McLUHAN, 1964

There needs to be a reset in cultural values to become more cyber hygienic and security-centric in regards to virtual connectivity

The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.

There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Basic mobile phones can circumvent lack of broadband access, but only to a certain extent.

We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

The big idea of, 'Hey, I can pay anyone, anywhere, with whatever digital wallet they have, and it just flows around the Internet' - that's on the horizon; that's how we built everything we do.

When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.