Cycles Quote by Alvin Toffler

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

— James Howard Kunstler

In short, industrialism is over.

— Paul Hawken

When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third…

— Bill Gates

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the…

— Aldous Huxley

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

— Harold Innis

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase…

— Om Malik

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

— John Zerzan

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

— Donald Miller

Industrial jobs are disappearing, and they will continue to disappear owing to productivity gains from automation. Thus, social models that were created to fit…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop…

— Aldous Huxley

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

— Maurice Strong