Ray Bradbury Quotes

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.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

Marx never saw an electric light bulb.

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.

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

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

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.

It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

I was an active participant in India's key economic reforms, including the third industrial revolution and now the fourth industrial revolution.

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don't see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

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.

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

But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern 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.