“DS not only changes Nintendo, it changes our industry.”
Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961) American businessman
On Nintendo DS
Source: E3 2004
Forbes: Marc Benioff to Write Age of Context Foreword https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelisrael/2013/03/18/marc-benioff-to-write-age-of-context-foreword/ (18 March 2013)
“DS not only changes Nintendo, it changes our industry.”
Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961) American businessman
On Nintendo DS
Source: E3 2004
“But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.”
David Harvey (1935) British anthropologist
Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 8, Fixed capital, p. 221
James Burke (science historian) (1936) British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer
Source: Connections (1979), 1 - The Trigger Effect
Context: You see how increasingly the only way we in the advanced industrial nations, with our bewildering technology network, can survive, is by selling bewilderment and dependence on technology to the rest of the world. Or is it not bewilderment and dependence, but a healthier wealthier better way of living than the old way? And, yet, whether or not you dress up technology to look local, the technology network is the same. And as it spreads, will it spread the ability to use machines, as we do, without understanding them?
“Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.”
Robert Kuttner (1943) American journalist
Guardian Weekly, August 08, 1993
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
Constantinos C. Markides (1960) Cypriot business theorist
Source: Game-Changing Strategies, 2013, p. 67
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938) Jordanian businesspeople
June 18, 2007, National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan.
“Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. ”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister