Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin Toffler
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- My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
- To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
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- Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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