“We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.” ShouldPersonsTodayPastPleasureAliveGratitudeComfortDegreesBenefitsAppreciationAvailableRemarkableTechnologicalLive For TodayGratitude And Appreciation Author:Zelig Pliskin
“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.” PeopleIfsShouldChildrenIdeasDoneBeliefBornPrinciplesProgressCenturyCitizensSucceedImportanceProfoundInventionConsumersEnginesEfficiencyConsumerismTechnologicalExpertiseMeasurementObjectivityNineteenth CenturyChild Of GodOverconsumptionTechnological ProgressStandardization Book:Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology