Arthur Erickson Quotes

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

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

The world is changing very profoundly.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

A totally new era in the history of mankind.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

The sudden political revolutions which strike the historian most forcibly are often the least important. The great revolutions are those of manners and thought. The true revolutions, those which transform the destinies of people, are most frequently accomplished so slowly that the historians can hardly point to their beginnings. Scientific revolutions are by far the most important.

You cannot just change regimes; you have to change mindsets.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world.

This is the age of disruption.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

While the digital transformation of industries will be profound, we must keep in mind that it will have wider economic and social impact, too, as with previous revolutions driven by steam and coal, electricity and computers.

When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.