Quotes About Modernization

Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

New York in the 1880's was already a city that seemed to have made up its mind that whatever existed was dispensable and replaceable

There is an embedded assumption in evolutionary theory that the human race came from some prehuman source and through natural selection is heading someplace incredible, some peak of evolution that is our ultimate destination. This belief naturally engenders the perspective that the human achievements of the past were all right for our ancestors, but in the here-and-now are obviously primitive and hopelessly old-fashioned.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

The days when a princess was too delicate to sleep on a mattress with a pea under it are long gone.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Technology is getting smaller, faster, cheaper, and more powerful every day.

With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

century ago, the typical Iowa farm raised more than a dozen different plant and animal species: cattle, chickens, corn, hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, cherries, wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. Now it raises only two: corn and soybeans.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. Time was when a car company made cars, a mining company dug mines. It's not like that anymore.

Kebisingan mobil yang hadir di mana-mana, seperti zat asam, melahap setiap momen perenungan. Mobil menjadikan keindahan masa lalu kota tak terlihat. Aku tidak seperti para moralis goblok yang berang karena sepuluh ribu kematian per tahun di jalan raya. Setidak-tidaknya, itu mengurangi jumlah pengendara mobil. Tapi aku memberontak terhadap kenyataan bahwa mobil-mobil telah menelan banyak katredal!

People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

Those who do not actively pursue progress and innovation soon find themselves at the tail end of history.

It gave me a sudden chill to recognize what it was like without wireless technology that I can't even remember what it was like without it. One day you're a Flintstone, the next a Jetson. As we grow older we're always complaining about how fast time goes, but this made me feel as though I'd raced through the last eighteen years without noticing them.

Now, re-reading Macauley by firelight, Sammy Tigertail struggled to envision the noble and fiercely insulated culture so admiringly documented in those pages. He wondered what the journalist-preacher would say about the twenty-first century clans that eagerly beckoned outsiders to tribal gambling halls, tourist traps and drive-through cigarette kiosks. For not the first time the young man contemplated the crushing likelihood that the warrior he aspired to become had no place to go.

We're much more efficient at carnage now. Try your very hardest not to participate.

And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangling was indeed, he thought, here to stay. Then he wondered: had anyone ever thought of themselves as a fangler?