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"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."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."
"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."
"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."
"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."
"As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so."
"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule."
"The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally."
"The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable."
"The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility."
"Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society."
"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples."
"The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically."
"A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe."
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