Peter Drucker Quotes About Technology
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In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.
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Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
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The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
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Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.
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For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .
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Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.
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Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
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Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.
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The computer is a moron.
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