Quotes About Modernization

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.

The U.S. military must be able to project massive, shattering force quickly from many directions—land, sea, air, and space—which means, among other things, that service parochialism is an expensive and dated luxury. The new military mantra is "jointness"—all the services must be able to work together as well and as comfortably as with members of their own organizations.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher

In fact, as they will be delighted to tell you, Taunton is no longer a one-horse town; these days, they have a bicycle as well . . .

Human societies have always defined themselves through narration, but nowadays corporations are telling man's stories for him.

To be morally educated is to realize that such would be a terrible price. Mechanical advance is the slack taken up of Our failing humanity. Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.

The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.

It's an upgrade arms race.

So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied

India is constipated with a lot of humbug. Take modern Indian music of the films. It is all tango & rhumba or samba played on Hawaiian guitars, violins, accordions & clarinets. It is ugly. It must be scrapped like the rest.

The second industrial revolution has yet to be fully experienced by 17% of the world as nearly 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity.

To paraphrase Madeleine Albright, we face the task of understanding and governing 21st-century technologies with a 20th-century mindset and 19th-century institutions.

La vita è triste, tra quei grattacieli, con tutte quelle straordinarie comodità, e gli ascensori, le porte girevoli, la metropolitana, e sempre case e palazzi e strade, e mai un po' di terra. Viene la malinconia.

The entrepreneurs of new firms as much as the management of the old (whether modernizing or not) are forced to do whatever is necessary to attract the players in the casino and then worry as much – or more – about the perfor- mance of their stock valuations as about their actual profits. Financial capital reigns arrogant and production capital has no alternative but to adapt to the new rules; some agents with glee, others with horror.

Believe me, if it can be digitized, it will be.

We have the iPhone, the iPad, and now we have the motherfuckering iMan.

Never send a human to do a computers job

Technology has allowed...our society to separate itself from the sights and the sounds of killing.... It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Governments, churches, and educational institutes, once the keepers of order and social enlightenment, are now scrambling to remain relevant as our collective consciousness and connectivity grows.

Progress,' said Audrey shortly....'It's important to destroy [nature] so we can have more electricity so that we can then have colour television to show us what the world is really like.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.