Jacques Ellul Quotes

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

I love the modern technology now.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

Luddism is no longer with us, but today we seem to be overtaken by its opposite, the inevitability of technological change coupled with the blind belief in capitalism's ability to provide us with all we need.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

...industrialisation took centuries, rather than decades

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

For most of history, the prime source of human insecurity was nature. Capitalist societies have been oriented toward innovation and dynamism, to the creation of new knowledge, new products, and new modes of production and distribution. All this has shifted the locus of insecurity from nature to the economy.