John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Technology changes nothing.

I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.

What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. And since military technologies are advanced technologies, what they actually sketch today is the future of the civil realm.

I'm more pro-technology than people probably realize.

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

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.

Humans change themselves through technology.