Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
The way communication works is changing.
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.
The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.