Quotes About Interconnectedness

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.

It was really important to me to explore how disparate people are connected.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.

Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

I would think the correlation between an era of increased globalization and an increased desire to participate in an entrepreneurial endeavor is not a coincidence. When interconnectedness is at a peak due to technological advances, the ability to spawn something new is slightly easier.

Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole.