Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 11 (p. 389)
M. S. Swaminathan (1925) Indian scientist
From [Prasad, Jagdish, Prasad, Arbind, Development Planning for Agriculture: Policies, Economic Implications, Inputs, Production and Marketing, http://books.google.com/books?id=d_eGATn4SHIC&pg=PA93, 1994, Mittal Publications, 978-81-7099-569-2, 93–]
Smedley D. Butler book War Is a Racket
War is a racket (1935)
War is a racket (1935)
Source: War Is a Racket
Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author
Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.17
“The most human thing about us is our technology.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Man and the future of organizations, Volume 5, School of Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1974, p. 19
1970s
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.”
Freeman Dyson book Infinite in All Directions
Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 8 : Quick Is Beautiful, p. 135
Context: The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages. According to the Hay Theory of History, the invention of hay was the decisive event which moved the center of gravity of urban civilization from the Mediterranean basin to Northern and Western Europe. The Roman Empire did not need hay because in a Mediterranean climate the grass grows well enough in winter for animals to graze. North of the Alps, great cities dependent on horses and oxen for motive power could not exist without hay. So it was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) American video art pioneer
Statement on TV Bra for a Living Scultpure (1969), cited in: C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia, "[http://artradarjournal.com/2014/10/24/nam-june-paik-becoming-robot-new-york/ Nam June Paik: “Becoming Robot” in New York – in pictures," at Art Radar journal, posted on 24/10/2014
1960s
Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
What the Future Holds (1984)
