"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein on Technology"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
Oscar Wilde on Technology"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
John F. Kennedy on Technology"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."
John F. Kennedy on Technology"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."