This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.
Art | Technology | Time |
We believe that the most basic of all changes in human social organization have been the result of three processes. Starting 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, agriculture was invented in the Middle East – probably by a woman. That’s the First Wave. Roughly 250 years ago, the Industrial Revolution triggered a Second Wave of change. Brute-force technologies amplified human and animal muscle power and gave rise to an urban, factory-centered way of life. Sometime after World War II, a gigantic Third Wave began transforming the planet, based on tools that amplify mind rather than muscle. The Third Wave is bigger, deeper and faster than the other two. This is the civilization of the computer, the satellite and Internet.
Change | Civilization | Computer | Force | Internet | Life | Life | Mind | Organization | Power | Revolution | War | Woman | World |
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Crime | Poverty | Revolution | Parent |
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Inevitable | Revolution | Will |
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
Change | Consciousness | Dreams | Future | History | Individual | Memory | Myth | Past | Revenge | Science | Technology | Tradition | Will |
Arthur C Clarke, formally Sir Arthur Charles Clark
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Magic | Technology |
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Challenge | Day | Heart | Revolution |
To bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has at start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest place, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers and sisters with that burning love, that passion, which led to the cross, then we can truly say, ‘Now I have begun.’
Heart | Love | Passion | Revolution |
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.
Fear | Love | Man | Men | Revolution | Trust | Work | Worry |
Technology made larger populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
Watching television, you’d think we lived at bay, in total jeopardy, surrounded on all sides by human-seeking germs, shielded against infection and death only by a chemical technology that enables us to keep killing them off.
Death | Technology | Television | Think |
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály
Every product of technology takes up space in the mind, and requires some investment of attention that could have been used for some other purpose.
Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
Government | Means | Suicide | Technology | World | Government |
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
Modern technology has led to the concentration of economic and political power, and to the development of a society controlled (ruthlessly in the totalitarian states, politely and inconspicuously in the democracies) by Big Business and Big Government.
Business | Government | Power | Society | Technology | Society | Business |