Alvin Toffler Quotes

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

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

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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.