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Tag Tag Social change
Anytime we have new forms of communication it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior.
Bill Gates Smithsonian Interview: Bill Gates · 1993

Quotes

”History is a graveyard of aristocracies.”

Vilfredo Pareto · The Mind and Society, 1916 · Primary source

“Of all the things humans have ever created, AI will change society the most.”

Bill Gates · The Year Ahead 2026: Optimism with footnotes, 2026 · Primary source

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

“Gibraltar may be strong, but ideas are impregnable, and bestow on the hero their invincibility.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Civilization, 1870 · Primary source

“We stated before that men’s ideas change slowly and that a nation’s ideas change even more slowly. It takes shocks—hard shocks—to change a nation’s psychology.”

John F. Kennedy · Why England Slept, 1940 · Primary source

Works

Arnold J. Toynbee · 1966
Change and Habit

An inquiry into whether humanity can change inherited habits and institutions fast enough to meet political, religious, demographic and technological pressures.

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Vilfredo Pareto · 1900
The Rise and Fall of Elites

An analysis of how ruling elites gain, maintain and lose power, and how new groups replace declining elites.

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