The 21st century is a century that will be defined by the technological revolution. No single century will see innovation to this magnitude. Technology has rather progressed at a snail’s pace in the entirety of human history, until the industrial revolution that began in the 18th century which sped up innovation and ushered in a new era for prosperity. With the discovery of electricity, mankind started rapid development and then came the big industries and factories, and now with the advent of the internet, almost every single part of human habitat is connected via the technology of the internet.
As we move further into the 21st century, innovation and discoveries in medical science and technology will mean that people will be able to live longer and more prosperous lives with the help of technology. It was hard to imagine what the internet will become during the 1970s and 1980s when it started. Now as we prepare to welcome 5G into our lives, technological revolution will engulf the entirety of the planet with the help of internet of things (IOT) devices. The world is becoming a smaller place thanks to the advancement of our technologies, and pretty soon we will be able to colonize other planets and mine for precious resources on distant galaxies.
- “It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.” – John Brunner
- “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” – Douglas Adams
- “Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.” – John Cleese
- “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” – Aldous Huxley
- “Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.” – Max Frisch
- “The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.” – Libby Larsen
- “TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.” – Douglas Coupland
- “The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” – Clay Shirky
- “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” – Christian Lous Lange
- “Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” – Steve Jobs
- “Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.” – Jacques Ellul
- “It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.” – Clive James
- “Technology transforms people’s lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.” – Narendra Modi
- “If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
- “The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.” – Bill Gates
- “All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein
- “America’s technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.” – Alice Embree
- “But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.” – Max Born
- “Darwin recognized that thus far the civilization of mankind has passed through four successive stages of evolution, namely, those based on the use of fire, the development of agriculture, the development of urban life and the use of basic science for technological advancement.” – Frederick Seitz
- “The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” – Steve Ballmer
- “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” – Sydney J. Harris
- “What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life.’ It is information, words, instructions… If you want to understand life, don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.” – Richard Dawkins
- “We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.” – Michael Oxley
- “Information technology has politicized the world’s population.” – Brent Scowcroft
- “If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” – Omar N. Bradley
- “Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.” – Jerome Wiesner
- “Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” – Stewart Brand
- “It’s hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don’t think it’s necessarily broader or smarter.” – Robert Redford
