Quotes About Progress

The more than 600 million people living in the region have seen remarkable progress in the 50 years since the formation of the association. ASEAN has brought peace and prosperity to a troubled region, generated inter-civilizational harmony in the most diverse corner of the earth

When China built walls and cut off communication with the rest of the world, it fell behind. When China opened up to the world, it thrived. To guarantee its continued long-term success, China should completely abandon its two-thousand-year-old Middle Kingdom mentality and decide to become the most open society in terms of economic engagement with the rest of the world.

Life never changes, until you take a step in a different direction - Kit McCann

You can't change nature, son!" "Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.

All what man tries to make or manufactures is one of the greatest things bringing down his life span. Bombs, guns, cars, Bicycles, Foods etc

For any leader to cling on his or her throne for long, working with women and youths is inevitable

Men and women will never be the same unless science is dead.

The journey of life is confusing, you can always see where you have come from but you can't see where you are going.....Its blurred.

You cannot develop a country by oppressing the poor of the poorest

Verden er ikke som den var. Nå tar det for eksempel lenger tid å leve.

The second industrial revolution has yet to be fully experienced by 17% of the world as nearly 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity.

In 2016, two academics from Oxford University came to the conclusion that up to 86% of jobs in restaurants, 75% of jobs in retail and 59% of jobs in entertainment could be automatized by 2035.

Technology is not an exogenous force over which we have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between "accept and live with it" and "reject and live without it". Instead, take dramatic technological change as an invitation to reflect about who we are and how we see the world.

the cost of storing information is approaching zero (storing 1GB costs an average of less than $0.03 a year today, compared to more than $10,000 20 years ago).

Since the first Industrial Revolution, the average real income per person in OECD economies has increased around 2,900%.

To paraphrase Madeleine Albright, we face the task of understanding and governing 21st-century technologies with a 20th-century mindset and 19th-century institutions.

Productivity is the most important determinant of long-term growth and rising living standards so its absence, if maintained throughout the forth industrial revolution, means that we will have less of each.

An estimated 90% of the world's data has been created in the past two years, and the amount of information created by businesses is doubling every 1.2 years.

interaction across the physical, digital and biological domains that make the fourth industrial revolution fundamentally different from previous revolutions.

In all moments of major technological change, people, companies, and institutions feel the depth of the change, but they are often overwhelmed by it, out of sheer ignorance of its effects.

During the lockdowns, a quasi-global relaxation of regulations that had previously hampered progress in domains where the technology had been available for years suddenly happened because there was no better or other choice available.

What matters to African Americans is their situation today, not how much their condition has "improved" compared to 150 years ago when many of their ancestors lived in slavery

In the automotive realm, a car is now a computer on wheels, with electronics representing roughly 40% of the cost of a car.

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