Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“workers worldwide typically resist regimentation, unless the local worker culture and upbringing are unusually modern.31 This complaint was voiced in England at… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
To be able to transform societies and economies to low-carbon ones was an amazing challenge. To influence and to facilitate such an… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
“Some five hundred people lived there. Four thousand years ago I should have found their ancestors living in the same place, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs… — Warren Eyster Copy Share Image
“Many 18th- and 19th-century artists rejected, criticized, or ignored the Industrial Revolution. Instead of uplifting man, industry seemed to demoralize and dehumanize… — Jesse Bryant Wilder Copy Share Image
“Here are some things we can expect of the New Tribal revolution, based on the experience of the Industrial Revolution.[...] Three: It… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“that the power of technology will keep increasing, while the price for this power will keep decreasing. With Moore’s Law proving to… — Max Isaacman Copy Share Image
“What we see in the period 1870–1914 is at best a stabilization of inequality at an extremely high level, and in certain… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers… — Neil Evans Copy Share Image
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of… — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
We need 21st century programs. We have to change the dynamic because the world - we're not in the Industrial Revolution anymore,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There are two or three things that we haven’t been able to confront or even acknowledge politically. One is that the aim… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks 'Modern Times' has got a big message is just putting it there himself. Charlie knew that the pressures of… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
“Between 1811 and 1817, a group of English textile workers whose jobs were threatened by the automated looms of the first Industrial… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since… — Reid Bryson Copy Share Image
To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution:… — Chris Huhne 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
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not… — Stan Shih Copy Share Image
Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“The importance of capital in the early Industrial Revolution was so great and so obvious everywhere that it gave rise to several… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Coined by ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s, but popularized by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen in 2002, the term Anthropocene refers to… — Cristina Eisenberg Copy Share Image