Quotes About Modernization

Computer pioneer Alan Kay likes to say that technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

La adaptación de los partidos políticos al siglo XXI es una prioridad.

cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.

necesitamos partidos políticos más fuertes, más modernos y más democráticos, que estimulen y faciliten la participación.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Literacy, the most empowering achievement of our civili- zation, is to be replaced by a vague and ill-defined screen savvy. The paper book, the tool that built modernity, is to be phased out in favor of fractured, unfixed information. All in the name of progress.

Far too much traditional church has consisted of too much tradition and not enough church.

The automatic rice cooker was launched in 1955 in Japan, revolutionizing housewives' daily routines. Before that, people cooked rice in a heavy pot over a stove.

It's the outside world that's the prison. The outside world of jobs and cars and cell phones and apartments and grocery stores. Appropriate clothing, plans for a Saturday night, loneliness.

the technology existed.

To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly

We are soon to have everywhere," wrote one futurist, "smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonators, sterilizers of water, air, food, and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads, and subways.

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.

Old ways are not always the best ways.

It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.

Opinions, customs, institutions, cities—everything has become vulgar, since we gave up repairing the old in order to buy every day some gaudy novelty.

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

The technification of the world blunts one's sensibility and does not refine one's senses.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

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

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.