Post-Industrial Quotes

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

The story of the next century is the transition from an industrial, resourced-based economy to a knowledge economy.

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

Cities have made the transition from industrial to service economies.

We have an industrial-age presidency, catering to a pre-industrial ideological base, in a post-industrial era.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.