The Future of Ideas (2001)
Context: All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times. Yet a set of ideas about a central aspect of this prosperity — "property" — confuses us. This confusion is leading us to change the environment in ways that will change the prosperity. Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
Ervin László (1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher
Laszlo (1986) "Technology and Social Change: An Approach from Nonequilibrium Systems Theory". Technological Forecasting and Social Change 29, p. 280; As cited in: K.L. Dennis (2003) An evolutionary paradigm of social systems. p. 38.
Jef Raskin (1943–2005) American computer scientist
Interview in The Guardian (21 October 2004)
Context: I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work — on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did — is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.
“Technology has become our culture, our culture technology.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“First technology, then culture.”
V. Vale (1942) American writer
Interview with V. Vale by Karlynne Ejercito in Bomb Magazine (27 July 2015)
“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
Eric Hobsbawm book The Age of Extremes
Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Eleven, Cultural Revolution, p.320
“Technological systems, like all cultural systems, must have some built-in stability.”
Joel Mokyr (1946) Israeli American economic historian
Source: The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress, 1992, p. 327
