Age Quote by Alvin Toffler

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have…

— Neri Oxman

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need…

— Andre Norton

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the…

— Jill Lepore

“The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer…

— George Packer

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

For a long time, the humans are going to be better than the machines and so different parts of the job will be leveraged.…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

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

— James Howard Kunstler

Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required…

— Joe Kaeser

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

“In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at…

— Matt Ridley

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of…

— Henry Ford

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make…

— Henry Beston