Quotes About Progress

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

The city is a device for measuring time.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out - Murray (WN 285).

He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inferences of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts. The term was part of the process that the device was meant to replace. It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated.

It takes centuries to invent the primitive.

The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.

As pessoas nao vão morrer. Não é esse o credo da nova cultura? As pessoas vão ser absorvidas em fluxos de informações. Não entendo nada disso. Os computadores vão morrer. Já estão morrendo na sua forma atual. Estão praticamente mortos como unidades distintas. Uma caixa, uma tela, um teclado. Eles estão se dissolvendo na textura da vida cotidiana. (...) Até a palavra computador parece retrógrada e burra.

De eso se trata con la tecnología: por una parte, consigue despertar nuestro apetito por la inmortalidad; por otra, amenaza con extinción universal. La tecnología es la naturaleza desprovista de lujuria.

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that take you logically to destinations, the unnerved surface of rolling plausibly along.

Whiz Co was a firm with an inside track to the future. The Future of Waste.

bright. This was the key, it seemed to us. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

But it will definitely come. Maybe now, maybe never.

If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word "identity" has reached an end.

This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative that defined every breath of the planet's living billions.

Anytime a church chooses to move forward, there will be conflict, because we are in a war.

Zero to One.

Quisiéramos que las finanzas dejaran de ser una máquina de hacer dinero típica de la era industrial y se convirtieran en una plataforma de prosperidad.

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.