Fourth Industrial Revolution Quotes

“Extraordinary technology brings extraordinary recklessness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Humanitarian Industrialization

Fourth industrial revolution my eye! We haven't yet recovered from the disparities produced by the first, second and third industrial revolutions. Morons keep peddling cold and pompous dreams devoid of humanity, and morons keep consuming them like good little backboneless vermin. Grow a backbone already!

We always look at the glorious aspects of industrialization and overlook all those countless lives that are ruined by it. But it's okay! As long as we are not struck by a catastrophe ourselves, our sleep of moronity never breaks - so long as our comfort is unchallenged, and enhanced rather, it's okay if millions keep falling through the cracks.

So long as you can afford a smartphone that runs smooth like butter, it doesn't matter if it is produced by modern day slave labors who can't even afford the basic essentials of living. With all the revenue the tech companies earn by charging you a thousand dollar for a hundred dollar smartphone, they can't even pay decent wages to the people working their butt off to manufacture their assets - because apparently, it is more important for the people at the top to afford private jets and trips to space, than the factory workers to afford healthcare, housing and a couple of square meals a day.

And this you call industrialization - well done - you just figured out the secret to glory without being bothered by something so boring as basic humanity.

I say to you here and now, listen well - stop abusing revolutionary scientific discoveries in the making of a cold, mechanistic, disparity infested world - use science and technology to wipe out the disparities, not cause them. Break free from your modern savagery of inhuman industrialization, and focus your mind on humanitarian industrialization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“The key to successfully navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution is more than simply learning new skills. It is knowing yourself and the unique value you have to offer any potential customer or employer.”
― Larry Boyer, Robot in the Next Cubicle: What You Need to Know to Adapt and Succeed in the Automation Age

“Health without progress is potential unused, whereas progress without health is potential abused.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“Evolution & Electronics (The Sonnet)

I know electronic circuitry like the back of my hand,
Yet it's the human mind that fascinates me most immensely.
Fascination in electronics lies in new design possibility,
Whereas the mind is the breeding ground of all possibility.
Our engineering is puny compared to that of Mother Nature,
Each day a new mystery unfolds in the vast organic kingdom.
Our puny electronics work based on cold 'n rigid computation,
Evolution of life in nature is predicated on plastic mutation.
That's why we must never disregard nature blinded by arrogance,
We may have conquered nature's mercy but we're still subordinate.
The moment a lifeform starts to vilify the womb whence it came,
With a single blow creator nature can flatten all our obstinance.
Foster humility and wisdom, before going nuts about technology.
Don't end up yet another fancy stain upon the honor of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“The fourth industrial revolution is to the 3rd industrial revolution what the 2nd industrial revolution was to the 1st industrial revolution.”
― Dwayne Mulenga Isaac Jr

“Hoping that the current knowledge producing education system, will enable us to respond to the demands of the fourth industrial revolution and the digital transformation, instead of engineering an innovation producing education system (education 4.0), is no different from going to Canaan with a road map to Egypt.”
― Sally Njeri Wangari

“Education has always played a critical role at every stage of the industrial revolution, a role that always changed as industrial revolutions change, from the first, second, and third industrial revolutions. Now is another time for the education system to not only change but transform in response to the demands of the 4th industrial revolution before us.”
― Evalyne Kemuma