Industrial revolution Quote by Italo Calvino

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

— Vitalik Buterin

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

— John T. Chambers

“When steel mills can move to more hospitable climates, they no longer present a stationary target for government or union control. The more than…

— Walter B. Wriston

When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we…

— Branko Milanovic

“The first industrial revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is a mistake and we must move on to another…

— Wayne Visser

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought…

— Emily Greene Balch

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of…

— Ashley Montagu

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

— Karl Marx

“The fascination with automation in part reflected the country’s mood in the immediate postwar period, including a solid ideological commitment to technological progress. Representatives…

— Stephen M. Ward