“It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.” RememberCommunicationInternetComputerSpeedPrioritiesFabulous Author:Misha Glenny
“If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with it? It seems like our dependency on these systems is so great that the room for maneuver as it were is very small. So that is problematic.” PeopleReasonCommunicationInternetInterfere Author:Misha Glenny
“You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.” GovernmentOrderSleepCrimeCommunicationDrugAccountsOrganizedFundPensionBank AccountsOrganized Crime Author:Misha Glenny
“The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal and intellectual communication, and what is not.” CountryGovernmentNamesSecurityHugeCommunicationInternetIntellectualSeries Author:Misha Glenny
