Civilization Quote by Junichiro Tanizaki

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later,…

— Lewis Thomas

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

— Hasso Plattner

I think we really need to update what we mean by infrastructure for the 21st century.

— Brian Deese

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either…

— David Bohm

What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for…

— George W. Bush

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a…

— John Stuart Mill

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

— Stephen Ambrose

“Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization.”

— Toba Beta

It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone…

— Dan Wells

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

— Howard Rheingold

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out…

— J. G. Ballard

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

— Varg Vikernes