Quotes About Trends

Researchers find that the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the last thirty years tracks the explosion of computers and tech gadgets in people's lives—and suspect this is no accidental correlation.

The last decade has seen a steady drumroll of reports like these, portraying an uptick in emotional ineptitude, desperation, and recklessness in our families, our communities, and our collective lives.

The "triad"—the convergence of electric vehicles, ride hailing, and self-driving cars—is far from sure.

In 2000, 1.9 million cars were sold in China, 17.3 million in the United States. By 2019, the number was 25 million in China and 17 million in the United States.

In 2019, EVs were less than 3 percent of new car sales in the United States. Some 189 zip codes—0.2 percent of the 43,000 in the country—represent 25 percent of EV sales, and all are in California. The main driver is government policy, as it is around the world.

In a weird way, fashion, which is frivolous to the core, shouldn't be taken seriously, but thank God people do: it makes for great people-watching.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

We long ago gave up the wish to have things that were adequate or even excellent; we have preferred instead to have things that were up-to-date.

78 million in 1900 to 230 million in 2000

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present

or concepts the publisher doesn't like) are not as sure to sell as the tried and true. On this, see Brian Martin, The Politics of Research

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Fads swept the youth of the sprawl at the speed of light; entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.

entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.

We hardly know our own preferences in abstract matters; some of us are easily talked out of them, and end by following the fashion or taking up with the beliefs of the most impressive philosopher in our neighborhood, whoever he may be.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.