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Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.