But with mergers like AOL and Time Warner, and Viacom and CBS, the world has changed and that vision is no longer compelling.
"The world has changed, and it's demanding action, " Biden said at the White House event.
The world has utterly changed and we are just beginning to recognize that.
Look at how the world has changed, and how kids today are able to multi-task to deal with far more incoming data and sensory input than any generation before.
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The world has changed since then, and the congressional plans for reforming health care have changed, too.
But Johnston says Australia's success at the World Cup has changed all that - and the other sports are worried.
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At the same time, many in the West do not appreciate the fact that the world order has indeed changed, and that China needs to be treated as more of an equal if the relationship is going to have any chance of getting off to a new start.
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And already YouTube has changed the world in ways large and small.
"New York is the most dynamic city in the world, and while technology has changed all around us, the city's payphones have remained mostly the same for decades, " said Mayor Bloomberg.
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However, the business world has changed almost beyond recognition over the last 30 years, and the time has come to redefine what excellence means.
The world has changed since Charles Darwin and other "gentlemen scientists" did their research 200 years ago.
But pending the results of the police enquiry into alleged illegal behaviour by the News of the World, and pending a public disclosure by News International of the way that it has changed its structures and practices to ensure such abuses never happen again, Ofcom is not in a position to adjudicate whether News Corporation is fit and proper.
In reality the world next month, or next quarter, will look very different from today, because the firm has impacted the world and because the world will have changed of its own accord.
Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level.
The world has certainly changed substantially since 2005 and he has had to change with it - no more sunshine winning the day and sharing the proceeds of growth - but it is still noteworthy that he felt the need to explain himself once again.
And the world has changed in the past few years.
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The mortar has changed little since World War II and remains one of the simplest weapons to operate, which is why it is found at the lowest level of infantry units, said Joseph Trevithick, a mortar expert with Global Security.org.
He has changed the world for the better, and for that, we must thank him.
But it is evident that the world economy and the world itself has changed.
Because the world has changed to a significant degree, yield and growth may need to come in a new form.
Ronald Reagan has changed America and the world, but the changes he made were to restore historic conservative values, not to impose artificially constructed ones.
Jack Nicklaus - whose total 18 major victories make him the most successful golfer of all-time - has roamed the world's greens since the late 1950s and changed expectations and the shape of the professional game.
Over time, the festivity has evolved as Dubrovnik and the world have changed.
"Since the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the media perception of German football and Germany in general has dramatically changed, " added Pfeiffer, who has lived in England since 1986.
By the time we get through collecting and analyzing data and creating plans to deal with the imagined scenario, the world has changed to the point that our data may already be obsolete.
American citizens are waking up to how vastly the world has changed, how potentially vast is citizen power, and how we can transform the world to one of prosperity and peace.
If you look back in time between now and the 1850s, everything in the world has changed except the classroom.
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