Quotes About Modernization

Nuestro mundo fabrica escombros en vez de ruinas, y en cuanto puede mete un bulldozer y lo hace desaparecer todo, dispuesto a olvidar.

Modernization did not demote the elderly. It demoted the family. It gave people—the young and the old—a way of life with more liberty and control, including the liberty to be less beholden to other generations. The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It's been replaced by veneration of the independent self. *   *   *

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

Our respect for culture and diversity and arts is very low because we only focused on building the economy. But now as we have reached modernization... many citizens can display their potential for arts and culture and I believe that's why Psy has become so popular.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.

PM Narendra Modi himself is a strong advocate of embracing technology in various aspects of governance.

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With multiple tabs open and clicking for hours, you can 'experience' more novel sex partners every ten minutes than your hunter-gatherer ancestors experienced in a lifetime.

Technology-fueled change is happening so fast that even a six-month-old process could be outdated. Saying this is the way it's always been done not only makes you sound lazy and resistant to change, but it could make your boss wonder why you haven't tried to improve things on your own.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

I'm in favour of the old roles being blurred. The old division at school where the boys did metalwork and woodwork and the girls did needlework and domestic science is awful, really - and I'm glad it's gone.

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

The Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee is crucial to the military's ongoing modernization efforts, ensuring readiness levels are at a place where we can protect ourselves against threats from around the world.