George Lucas Quotes

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

In a television age, the record is lame; it never catches up.

Technology can progress to an entire new generation in the time it takes one legislative committee to issue a report. Regulation of technology confronts us with two radically different time scales.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

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.

Technology is moving quickly. Policy is not moving as quickly.

The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not kill radio, movies did not kill theatre, and home videos did not kill movie theaters, although all these things were falsely predicted.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.