Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

Let's move forward and fix America's problems.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Technology changes nothing.