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“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.”

Technology Function Deprived

Book:The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America

“Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?”

Wisdom Jobs Purpose Politics Technology Economy Labor Function Liberalism Formation

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.”

Problem Body Technology Limits Function Vulnerability Fragility Amplify

Book:In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Ability Technology Taken Becoming Losing Function Dependent Incidents

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Use Technology Internet Function Architecture Silly Peers Pornography Initials

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.”