http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

 

Inventions themselves are not revolutions; neither are they the cause of revolutions. Their powers for change lie in the hands of those who have the imagination and insight to see that the new invention has offered them new liberties of action, that old constraints have been removed, that their political will, or their sheer greed, are no longer frustrated, and that they can act in new ways. New social behaviour patterns and new social institutions are created which in turn become the commonplace experience of future generations.

 

Colin Cherry, "The Telephone System: Creator of Mobility and Social Change", in Ithiel de Sola Pool, The Social Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge MA, 1977): 112-26.

 

 

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

See http://www.malaysia.net/bala-interview

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