Quotes About Advancement

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

Social improvement is not to be won by direct effort. It is secondary, and results from physical or economic improvements. That

Every improvement in education, science, art, or government expands the chances of man on earth. Such expansion is no guarantee of equality. On

The reason why man is not altogether a brute is, because he has learned to accumulate capital, to use capital, to advance to a higher organization of society, to develop a completer co-operation, and so to win greater and greater control over Nature.

The Advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only true guardian of liberty. "—James Madison.

My brother, Major General Lawrence Heinlein, once told me that there are only two promotions in life that mean a damn: from buck private to corporal, and from colonel to general officer. I made corporal decades ago Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but now at long last I know what he meant about the other. Thank you.17

Life blindly breeds, battles, and slaughters its way up to mind and rationality

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms of propriety, ever advancing signals of cultivation.

If something is permitted by the laws of physics, then the only thing that can prevent it from being technologically possible is not knowing how.

everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.

there is only one way of making progress: conjecture and criticism

the assumption that progress in a hypothetical rapacious civilization is limited by raw materials rather than by knowledge.

Changing our genes in order to improve our lives and to facilitate further improvements is no different in this regard from augmenting our skin with clothes or our eyes with telescopes.

They are 'universal constructors'.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

Rouche era fatto così, era costantemente in ritardo sulla versione migliore di se stesso.

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

Growth, unlike aging, is not an automatic consequence of

In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a fifteen-hour work week. There's every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn't happen.

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins. Researchers who tally the results of this immortal race have a name for it: history.

technological singularity," the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own.