To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.
Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.
It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.
Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what sort of consequences this had. Or industrialization, what sort of consequences that had. Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies. And it took awhile until societies learned how to find the right kind of policies to contain this and manage and steer this.
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a problem for society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually solved by the establishment of a new overall adjustment.
My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.
We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.
I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
With every innovation that has happened, we somehow, our country, our society has found jobs and a means of income for people who have been aced out. And it happens a lot with innovation, technological and otherwise. And people do prove adaptive.
