{"quotes":[{"text":"A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.","author":"Arindam Mukherjee","tags":["diversity","ethnicity","globalization","plurality"],"id":3243,"author_id":"Arindam+Mukherjee"},{"text":"When I was a girl . . . I imagined that life was individual, one's own affair; that the events happening in the world outside were important enough in their own way, but were personally quite irrelevant. Now, like the rest of my generation, I have had to learn again and again the terrible truth . . . That no life is really private, or isolated, or self-sufficient. People's lives were entirely their own, perhaps--and more justifiably--when the world seemed enormous, and all its comings and goings were slow and deliberate. But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.","author":"Vera Brittain","tags":["globalization","individuality","life"],"id":8218,"author_id":"Vera+Brittain"},{"text":"The impact of the internet on economic development is shifting in two important directions. First, given the aging population and near-saturated market penetration in the advanced economies, most of the expansion of the internet related market will take place in developing countries like Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Secondly, the globalization of the internet is expected to increase the share of developing countries in the internet economy presenting a historic opportunity for the young and poor in Pakistan to improve their economic condition.","author":"Arzak Khan","tags":["development","economics-society","globalization","internet","population"],"id":10284,"author_id":"Arzak+Khan"},{"text":"We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn't have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty symbolic.' –Bill Gerstenmaier.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["america","cold-war","global-community","globalism","globalization","international-law","international-relations","international-space-station","outer-space","russia","space-research","united-states","working-together"],"id":21458,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"Globalization has shipped products at a faster rate than anything else; it’s moved English into schools all over the world so that now there is Dutch English and Filipino English and Japanese English. But the ideologies stay in their places. They do not spread like the swine flu, or through sexual contact. They spread through books and films and things of that nature. The dictatorships of Latin America used to ban books, they used to burn them, just like Franco did, like Pope Gregory IX and Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Now they don’t have to because the best place to hide ideologies is in books. The dictatorships are mostly gone—Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay. The military juntas. Our ideologies are not secrets. Even the Ku Klux Klan holds open meetings in Alabama like a church. None of the Communists are still in jail. You can buy Mao’s red book at the gift shop at the Museum of Communism. I will die soon, in the next five to ten years. I have not seen progress during my lifetime. Our lives are too short and disposable. If we had longer life expectancies, if we lived to 200, would we work harder to preserve life or, do you think that when Borges said, ‘Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe in only those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive,’ we would simply alter it to say ‘first two centuries’? I have heard people say we are living in a golden age, but the golden age has passed—I’ve seen it in the churches all over Latin America where the gold is like glue. The Middle Ages are called the Dark Ages but only because they are forgotten, because the past is shrouded in darkness, because as we lay one century of life on top of the next, everything that has come before seems old and dark—technological advances provide the illusion of progress. The most horrendous tortures carried out in the past are still carried out today, only today the soldiers don’t meet face to face, no one is drawn and quartered, they take a pill and silently hope a heart attack doesn’t strike them first. We are living in the age of dissociation, speaking a government-patented language of innocence—technology is neither good nor evil, neither progress nor regress, but the more advanced it becomes, the more we will define this era as the one of transparent secrets, of people living in a world of open, agile knowledge, oceans unpoliced—all blank faces, blank minds, blank computers, filled with our native programming, using electronic appliances with enough memory to store everything ever written invented at precisely the same moment we no longer have the desire to read a word of it.","author":"John M. Keller","tags":["books","english","globalization","technology"],"id":27054,"author_id":"John+M.+Keller"},{"text":"I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.","author":"Scott Cairns","tags":["christianity","electronics","globalization","prophecy"],"id":27747,"author_id":"Scott+Cairns"},{"text":"The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.","author":"Marine Le Pen","tags":["free","people","globalization "],"id":40331,"author_id":"Marine+Le+Pen"},{"text":"We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.","author":"Marine Le Pen","tags":["world","people","globalization "],"id":45873,"author_id":"Marine+Le+Pen"},{"text":"Someday they would discover that the stars were not sacred, but made from the same material as their bodies. They would learn it was the stars that created their worlds, that worlds created their minds, that minds created tools, and tools could create stars. Growing, sprawling, thriving until they too became masters of their own understanding, chasing enlightenment with the fervor of having nothing to lose, launching from their homelands like fireworks with glorious yellow tails.","author":"Jake Vander-Ark","tags":["cosmology","creativity","extraterrestrials","globalization","humanism","living-life-to-the-fullest","singularity","technology"],"id":46341,"author_id":"Jake+Vander-Ark"},{"text":"Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["astronauts","globalism","globalization","international-relations","international-space-station","iss","outer-space","space","space-exploration","space-travel","working-together"],"id":57554,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}