Fernando Flores Quotes

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

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

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Horse-and-Carriage diplomacy, like governance by crowned heads selected by accident of birth, proved wholly inadequate to address a crisis of the Electric Age.

We’ve had plenty of populist figures in our past, but they had a different degree of substance than Mr. Trump. William Jennings Bryan [the Democratic nominee for president in 1896, 1900 and 1908] came out of a period like today. The industrial revolution was like our tech revolution and globalization. The pace of life had sped up and made people anxious. Telegrams and telephones were fast. Immigration was huge. And Bryan’s supporters, like Trump’s, were fearful about the way the country was changing.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

We are in a technological age, and 'Social Music' aims to reflect that spirit of advancement, collaboration and connectivity while still remaining 'human.' And Stay Human, then, is a reminder of what connects us all. It's our mantra.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

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.

I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather be a part of history than just sit and watch it on TV." So, the fact that so many people are starting to ask the right questions and rack their brains for solutions does give me hope.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

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