Quotes About Disruption

every routine is an invitation for disruption, every hierarchy an invitation for revolution.

we will end up with downgraded humans misusing upgraded computers to wreak havoc on themselves and on the world.

with the rise of AI, robots, and 3-D printers, cheap unskilled labor will become far less important

Bank clerks and travel agents, who a short time ago seemed completely secure from automation, have become endangered species.

the rise of AI might eliminate the economic value and political power of most humans.

Over the last seventy years humankind has broken not only the Law of the Jungle, but also the Chekhov Law. Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout

Whereas social and political systems previously endured for centuries, today every generation destroys the old world and builds a new one in its place.

Sin embargo, el crecimiento económico no salvará al ecosistema global; justo lo contrario, porque es la causa de la crisis ecológica. Y el crecimiento económico no resolverá la disrupción tecnológica: esta se afirma en la invención de tecnologías cada vez más disruptivas.

A revolução tecnológica pode, em breve, deixar milhões de seres humanos fora do mercado de trabalho e criar uma gigantesca classe social inútil, levando a convulsões sociais e políticas que nenhuma ideologia existente sabe como gerir.

Both politicians and voters are barely able to comprehend the new technologies, let alone regulate their explosive potential.

In the coming decades, it is likely that we will see more Internet-like revolutions, in which technology steals a march on politics.

threat of job losses does not result merely from the rise of infotech. It results from the confluence of infotech with biotech.

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves." -Zeena Schreck for "Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity," University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.

In 2016, protesters at London's King's College disrupted a talk by Ami Ayalon, the former head of Shin Bet, Israel's version of our FBI. Students from a pro-Palestinian group chanted, threw chairs, smashed windows, and repeatedly set off the fire alarm in the room where Ayalon was speaking about the two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine situation, which is something he strongly supports.

I want to get away from the kinship structures that are supposed to hold me together. To mess up the story I have been told about myself. To hold the story upside down by its tail.

one must destroy in order to create.

Every great change is preceded by chaos

New vandals will destroy what former vandals failed to abolish.

Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

mind is in a permanent state of finely tuned chaos that I would be loath to disrupt.