Quotes About Progress

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Desde el momento en el que el primero de nuestros antepasados convirtió un palo en una lanza, las consecuencias de los conflictos a lo largo de la historia han sido impuestas por la tecnologia.

en realidad lo que ha moldeado la historia de la humanidad, al menos a nivel genético, ha sido esa migración femenina realizada paso a paso, de pueblo en pueblo.

Success breeds success while broke breeds broke

Success breeds success remember that

after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned"6 —MARSHALL McLUHAN, 1964

Memorization as a skill will become useless, but the value of quickly learning will increase. We'll be in a world of abundant information and what you'll need to know is how to use it.

Through all of human history from its earliest beginnings until now, there have been only three basic stages of economic life: (1) hunting-and-gathering societies; (2) agricultural societies; and (3) industrial societies.

With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.

Apokalypsis means "unveiling" in Greek. We believe that a new stage in history—the Information Age—is about to be "unveiled.

James Dale Davidson

For better or worse, the societies of the twenty-first century are likely to be more unequal than those we have lived in during the twentieth.

We believe that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 culminates the era of the nation-state, a peculiar two-hundred-year phase in history that began with the French Revolution.

The cybereconomy, rather than China, could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years.

The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.

Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.

Every social system, however strongly or weakly it clings to power, pretends that its rules will never be superseded.

We live in the time of the computer, but our dreams are still spun on the loom.

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

Someday we'll be bigger.

Phase Two. The Scorch Trials.