Accelerated Change Quotes

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

Television speeded everything up.

Everything we have learned in the last 15,000 years will be swept away in the coming years…. The next hundred years will produce more changes than have taken place in the last 100,000 years. Indeed, the last 100 years have produced more change than the last 100,000 years.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

Our planet that gets smaller every year, with its fantastic proliferation of mass media, is witnessing a process that escapes definition, characterized by a refusal to remember.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

Sometimes history speeds up..

I don't see it as coincidence that the great acceleration of the Anthropocene influences on Earth came during the same decades as our first exploration of the other planets.