Quotes for All
We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in … Read more
But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated – free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down. Fareed Zakaria
Technological change can become ‘fetishized’ as a ‘thing in itself’, as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism. David Harvey
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. David Harvey
The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can’t bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books. David Edelstein
Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change. Chris Sacca
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. Bill Gates
What is the appeal of Trump, really? It’s nostalgic: “Make America great again.” Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a “real” America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind … Read more
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates. Andy Hargreaves
Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us … … Read more