"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road"
- Stewart Brand
About this Quote
This quote by Stewart Brand is a warning to those who are not staying on par with the latest innovation. It suggests that if you do not benefit from the brand-new innovation, you will certainly be left as well as become pointless. It indicates that those who are not component of the steamroller, or those who are not actively embracing the new modern technology, will be squashed by it. It is a suggestion that innovation is continuously progressing and also those who do not keep up will be left. It is a call to activity for those who intend to remain relevant and affordable in the ever-changing technological landscape. It is a reminder that those who are not part of the steamroller will certainly enter into the roadway, and also will be left behind in the dirt.
This quote is written / told by Stewart Brand somewhere between December 14, 1938 and today. He/she was a famous Author from USA.
The author also have 4 other quotes.
"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"
"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"
"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"
"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses"
