Ian Morris Quotes

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

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

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

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

The future is now.

Science and technology is going to change every day for the rest of your lives.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection

Abroad, technological change will create even more disruption as the wave of acceleration engulfs societies that have not yet come to terms with the social demands of industrialization, let alone more recent technological change. Mass disorientation can become the source of both national aggression and non-state terrorism—aggression and terrorism made all the more devastating by access to weapons that are not only increasingly powerful but also deployable by ever smaller groups.

Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous dataset to draw on, so whatever shaped curve we're on, we're only at the beginning of it.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

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.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

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

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Technology makes the world a new place.

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

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

We have really made an advance in civilization, that the principles on which our political and social order rest are in harmony with the laws of the universe, that we have set up an ideal which may never in genuine happiness certain...We are getting rid of old world things and becoming accustomed to the new. We are forming new creeds, new judgments, new manners; we are becoming a new race of men.

There’s not a single aspect of human life that doesn’t have the potential to be totally transformed by these technologies in the future.