“Brewing is mentioned rarely in accounts of the Industrial Revolution. Temperance pressures meant it was impolitic for brewers to boast of their… — Peter Brown Copy Share Image
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy.… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. — Greg Palast Copy Share Image
“Opium had been prescribed as laudanum, a liquid ‘medicine’ that was also very popular among working-class men and women struggling to adapt… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“Political power was thus widely dispersed in Somali society, almost pluralistically. But without the authority of a centralized state to enforce order,… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Currently, education is stuck in the same Industrial Revolution paradigm it has been in for more than 100 years. In” — Luke Dormehl Copy Share Image
“THE LAST 500 YEARS HAVE WITNESSED A breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The obvious differences apart, Karl Marx was no more a reliable prophet than was the Reverend Jim Jones. Karl Marx was a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“Let's look at one more quick example of modern evolution at work. In the early 1800s, light-colored lichens covered many of the… — David Mills Copy Share Image
The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century… — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things,… — Andre Norton Copy Share Image
I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the… — Robert Epstein Copy Share Image
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I was an active participant in India's key economic reforms, including the third industrial revolution and now the fourth industrial revolution. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
