John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Problem, Modern

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Mean

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.14, Princeton University Press

• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Yield, Land

• Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Political Will, May

• The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Space, Achievement

  The Saturday Evening Post, 1968.

• THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lying, Technology, Genius

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.432, Princeton University Press

• The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Real, Science, Technology

  1967 The New Industrial State.

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