John McGinnis Quotes

Everything we have learned in the last 15,000 years will be swept away in the coming years…. The next hundred years will produce more changes than have taken place in the last 100,000 years. Indeed, the last 100 years have produced more change than the last 100,000 years.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

This is … a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job — the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried — made obsolete — faster than ever

We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.