List Of Technological Change Quotes

What Is Sure Is That Technological Change Is Accelerating In All Directions And, Like Children Playing In A Fountain, Consumers Are Reveling In The Experience.

Anyone Who Has Studied The History Of Technology Knows That Technological Change Is Always A Faustian Bargain: Technology Giveth And Technology Taketh Away, And Not Always In Equal Measure. A New Technology Sometimes Creates More Than It Destroys. Sometimes, It Destroys More Than It Creates. But It Is Never One-sided. The Invention Of The Printing Press Is An Excellent Example. Printing Fostered The Modern Idea Of Individuality But It Destroyed The Medieval Sense Of Community And Social Integration.

Within A Few Decades, Machine Intelligence Will Surpass Human Intelligence, Leading To The Singularity -- Technological Change So Rapid And Profound It Represents A Rupture In The Fabric Of Human History. The Implications Include The Merger Of Biological And Nonbiological Intelligence, Immortal Software-based Humans, And Ultra-high Levels Of Intelligence That Expand Outward In The Universe At The Speed Of Light.

Long Distances Used To Be A Moat That Both Insulated And Isolated People From Workers On The Other Side Of The World. But Every Day, Technology Narrows That Moat Inch By Inch. Every Person In The World Is On The Verge Of Becoming Both A Coworker And A Competitor To Every One Of Us ... Technological Change Is Going To Reach Out And Sooner Or Later Change Something Fundamental In Your Business World.

We Live In An Extraordinary Time. We Are Caught Up In A Pace Of Social And Technological Change That Makes Our Work, Our Business And Education, Sources Of Anxiety And Unfulfillment. Thinking About Our Thinking And Observing Our Observations Can Bring Us A New World In Which Work Becomes A Place For Innovation, And In Which Peace, Wisdom, Friendship, Companionship And Community Can Exist. Let Us Design This World Together.

The Pace Of Technological Change In Recent Years Has Been Both Impressive And Positive For Consumers.

We Cannot Escape That Hollywood Is In The Middle Of A Wave Of Technological Change. The Current Angst Over All The Implications Of New Entertainment Technology Is Nothing New.

I Discovered, To My Amazement, That All Through History There Had Been Resistance ... And Bitter, Exaggerated, Last-stitch Resistance ... To Every Significant Technological Change That Had Taken Place On Earth. Usually The Resistance Came From Those Groups Who Stood To Lose Influence, Status, Money...as A Result Of The Change. Although They Never Advanced This As Their Reason For Resisting It. It Was Always The Good Of Humanity That Rested Upon Their Hearts.