Quotes About Modernization

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

1883, Printemps achieved the distinction of being the first department store in Paris to be lit electrically. Zola,

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard. Or pre-chopped garlic. Or the theory of relativity.

Homo sapiens sabahlar? bir canl?y? öldürebileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyanan ilkel bir avc?yd? eskiden. Åžimdi ise, sabahlar? bir ÅŸey sat?n alabileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyan?yordu yaln?zca.

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

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Our PR business today has increasingly less in common with the business we used to do just ten years ago, let alone a hundred years ago. Pretty soon, it will look nothing like its former self.

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

People earnestly say to me here, 'Mr Knight, we have cellphones now, and you're going to really enjoy them.' That's their enticement for me to rejoin society. 'You're going to love it,' they say. I have no desire. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? We're going backwards.

If she [Mrs. Homemaker] didn't know how much she needed convenience, it was up to inventors like Clausi to show her the way.

Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities. We try to match new demands with a spiritual life not designed for them.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

I feel sorry for hookers these days—how do they stand out anymore?

Today, we are able to do what your parents would would have dismissed as impossible and your grandparents as nothing short of magical.

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.

All in all, airport shops still form part of the national culture; but a part that is safe, attenuated, and wholly adapted to global consumption. For the traveler at the end of his journey, it is a halfway house, less interesting and less frightening than the rest of the country. I had an inkling that, more and more, the whole world would come to resemble an airport.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

With automation at this level, the new "ops guy" won't care if he's responsible for a dozen systems or 10,000. And the modern BOFH is, more often than not, an old-school sysadmin who has chosen not to adapt.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.