Quotes About Modernization

Detrás de la fachada de la ciudad moderna, sigue morando el viejo mono desnudo. Sólo los nombres han cambiado: en vez de caza, decimos "trabajo"; en vez de campo de caza, "barrio comercial", en vez de cubil, "hogar", en vez de apareamiento, "matrimonio"; en vez de compañera, "esposa", etcétera.

Jakarta. Aku setuju. Kota ini biangnya dualisme. Antara ingin Timur dan berlagak Timur, sembari terdesak habis oleh Barat sekaligus paling keras mengutuk-ngutuk.

There would certainly be wide agreement that more than 4 billion of the world's 7 billion people are very far from having enough. At least 2 billion do not have enough to eat, do not have adequate housing and water, are unable to educate their children or afford health care. These "bottom of the pyramid" billions can hardly be considered greedy when they aspire to be consumers and buy the global brands that signal joining the modern economic world.

But she was not of those who believe in the sanctity of handwork, however crude. There is no particular point in doing by hand what can be done as well and better by machine.

For us, books have turned into fast food, to be consumed in the gaps between one bout of relentless living and the next. Airports, subways, maybe half an hour at bedtime, maybe something with the office sandwich, isn't really ideal.

Agora até um frango tem mais tecnologia do que carne.

One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

Why keep something just because it's old? New is almost always better than old, you know.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

How else can one explain the survival of so much that is so utterly pointless – barristers' wigs, bearskins, an unelected House of Lords, flummeries from the Trooping the Colour to Swan-upping, or archaic-sounding offices of state like Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Warden of the Cinque Ports? In the end, it gets to everyone: those who start their adulthood in passionate argument for modernization end up dreaming of a seat in the House of Lords.

consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857, that same trip by rail would have taken 72 hours.12

Ma mõtlesin, et elame konservide ajastul.'' ''Konservide? Kuidas nii?'' Ravic osutas ajalehtedele. ''Meil pole enam tarvis mõtelda. Kõik on ette mõeldud, ette mälutud, ette tunnetatud. Konservid. Jääb üle ainult avada. Kolm korda päevas koju kätte toimetatud. Midagi pole enam tarvis ise külvata, kasvatada, pole tarvis küsimuste, kahtluste ja igatsuste tulel keeta. Konservid.

disrupting the lives of hidebound bureaucrats. He launched his new

Although it is fashionable to decry President Trump's present-day use of Twitter to communicate directly with the electorate, it is a device that would probably have been used by most leaders if they had been able.

Electronic banking is still a clumsy way to replace a stamp. And interactive television seems to have vanished even before the ink dried on the mega-announcements.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200 000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking.

Until the early 1970s, the United States was the very model of a modern major economy.

The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.