Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world map looks smaller than ever before.
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.
I feel grateful to be this size; after all, if I weren't small and had not achieved these world records, I might never have been able to visit Japan and Europe and many other wonderful countries.
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.