Ed Rendell Quotes

… post-industrial society

The story of the next century is the transition from an industrial, resourced-based economy to a knowledge economy.

Over the last three decades, Mexico has made the transition from a commodity and agricultural-based economy to one dominated by manufacturing and services.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

In short, industrialism is over.

Modernization is found in markets.

Civic rationality and modern capitalism triumphed in the medieval northern European cities – but not in Chinese, Indian or Muslim cities

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.

The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

This country has been economically successful because of cheap energy and cheap labor and we are never going to have these again.

We have an industrial-age presidency, catering to a pre-industrial ideological base, in a post-industrial era.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

Cities are immortal.