Computers Quote by Edward A. Hudson

“all Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication”

— Allen Ginsberg

“It’s the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people’s behavior and shape their perceptions.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods were produced.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.…

— John Moody

“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better…

— Ludwig Von Mises

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were…

— Tim Harford

“Some people, today we would call them entrepreneurs, responded to these economic opportunities by seeking and eventually finding ways of producing these goods in…

— Edward A. Hudson

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

— Wendell Berry

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

“Railroads, in turn, were revolutionary in their social consequences. The concentrations of the world's populations along coasts and near rivers was reduced, as land…

— Thomas Sowell

A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what…

— Lynn Nottage