Social Acceleration Quotes

There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.