History Quote by Peter Thiel

“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?”

— Peter Watts

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

— James Redfield

“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific…

— Dan Simmons

“just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable…

— Brian Eno

“Technological advances happen so quickly, and integrate themselves so seamlessly into the fabric of our existence, that we hardly note their arrival anymore, let…

— Ron Currie Jr

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

— Bettany Hughes

“Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of…

— Luciano Floridi

“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Technological evolution is the result of our own desire to lead a better life.”

— R.S. Amblee

Technology makes the world a new place.

— Shoshana Zuboff

“In truth, however, nothing is inevitable and very little is new. And tech is no more the root of the problem than are trade…

— Thomas Frank