Quotes About Modernization

Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

I am worried about development in the field of information technology, communication, etc. So you cannot say that I have become inactive.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran.

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And as society modernized, people found themselves able to live independently from any communal group. A person living in a modern city or a suburb can, for the first time in history, go through an entire day—or an entire life—mostly encountering complete strangers. They can be surrounded by others and yet feel deeply, dangerously alone.

As modern society reduced the role of community, it simultaneously elevated the role of authority. The two are uneasy companions, and as one goes up

humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences." The

The path-breaking writer and thinker on nationalism, Benedict Anderson, has convincingly pointed out that identities uniting large numbers of people could arise only after a certain technological level had been attained.

In the new model the presidency bears little resemblance to the original conception of a national leader and chief executive; it owes even less to the later ideal of the president as "the tribune of the people.

I'm not an Indian warrior chief. I'm not some demure little Indian woman healer talking spider this, spider that, am I? I'm not babbling about the four directions. Or the two-legged, four-legged, and winged. I'm talking like a twentieth-century Indian woman. Hell, a twenty-first century Indian, and you can't handle it, you wimp.

the earth is our grandmother and that technology has become our mother and that they both hate each other.

Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

Yet, sustainability, the guiding concept behind ecological modernization, is as much a political–economic dimension as an ecological one: what can be sustained is only what political and social forces in a particular historical alignment define as acceptable (Gould et al. 1993: 231).

Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were...

Why shouldn't it last? We are living in the age of progress, William. Mankind is progressing." To which remark William had always replied with the irritating question, "What to?

Houve um tempo em que havia homens livres. Havia desertos, estepes, bosques, campos, lugares onde o ser humano podia ser dono de si mesmo. Hoje, a televisão por satélite, o telemóvel, as telecomunicações, a Internet, mataram o homem livre. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista