Quotes About Progress

enough pieces of cheese and you can be fairly sure that the

Los dispositivos digitales evitan errores pequeños pero preparan el terreno para grandes errores».

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

And, second, with any new invention, it makes sense to at least ask ourselves how we might maximise the benefits and mitigate the risks.

This book isn't an attempt to identify the fifty most economically significant inventions. It's not a book-length listicle, with a countdown to the most important invention of all. Indeed, some that would be no-brainers on any such list haven't made the cut: the printing press, the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the airplane, and the computer.

But the psychologist Steven Pinker has argued that good news tends to unfold slowly, while bad news is often more sudden.

Man-made light was once a thing that was too precious to use. Now it is too cheap to notice.

their mistakes. Most individuals suffer from the same problem. Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. 9

The likes of Google and Target are no more keen to share their datasets and algorithms than Newton was to share his alchemical experiments. Sometimes

and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without

Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In

make it public. It's not just disagreeing to be disagreeable (pet food! online!), it's disagreeing where you can build

Sonhar o futuro não está reservado aos tecnólogos. O governo do povo, pelo povo e para o povo exige também uma reinvenção massiva para o século XXI.

Understanding that what used to be hard is now free and easy due to the work of others is essential to the leapfrogging progress of technology.

work in progress, but shows the many ideas that radiate

Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's

It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn't known before.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

Time to experiment. Necessity being the motherfucker of whatever is in its way.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Chicago activist Saul Alinsky sardonically defined integration as "the period of time between the arrival of the first black and the departure of the last white.

Mamie now envisioned God's purpose for her life—and for her son's life: "I took the privacy of my own grief and turned it into a public issue, a political issue, one which set in motion the dynamic force that ultimately led to a generation of social and legal progress for this country."32