Computers Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“Without ready access to electricity, we are thrust back into another age—an age in which many of us would lack both the experience and…

— Ted Koppel

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

“The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn electrical generators.”

— Steven Magee

“ One hundred and fifty years ago , the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape…

— Patrick Ness

“That machine’s a great invention!” he said. “Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I’m all for progress. It’s…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“all Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication”

— Allen Ginsberg

“Electric light, the first reliable internal combustion engine, and wireless transmission were all invented within the same three-month period at the end of 1879. Within”

— Robert J. Gordon

“No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing. Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison…

— Daniel Quinn

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about…

— John McGahern

“There were so many forms of prehistoric technology. Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society.”

— Toba Beta

“Electrification was one of the most disruptive technologies ever; in the first decades of the twentieth century, it caused something close to a mass…

— Andrew McAfee

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