Yuval Noah Harari

People have long feared that mechanization might cause mass unemployment. This never happened because, as old professions became obsolete, new professions evolved, and there was always something humans could do better than machines. Yet this is not a law of nature, and nothing guarantees it will continue to be like that in the future.

Israeli Historian

Steve Hanke

During the last two centuries, there have been many deflations throughout the world. Almost all of them have been good ones precipitated by technological innovation, rising productivity, global capital flows, and sustained economic growth. If farm mechanization cuts the price of wheat, you get a rising living standard. This is good.

American Economist

Frederick Banting

In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.

Canadian Scientist

Steven Sinofsky

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

American Businessman

Larry Page

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Nina Fedoroff

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

American Scientist

Stanley A. McChrystal

Industrial technologies that allowed for increased mechanization in 19th-century armed forces also spurred Frederick Winslow Taylor to develop his 'Scientific Management' doctrine in Philadelphia steel mills.

American Footballer

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

British Writer

Federico Garcia Lorca

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

Spanish Poet

Frank Lloyd Wright

American Architect

Understand how the industrial revolution sparked mechanization and reshaped societies.

Historical Influence

Recognize mechanization's role in boosting productivity and altering economies.

Economic Impact

Explore how mechanization changes job roles, often reducing manual labor.

Workforce Shifts

Reflect on how mechanization can be a point of debate on human and machine interaction.

Philosophical Debate

Be aware that mechanization might imply a loss of emotional connection in life.

Emotional Connotation

Understand the negative view some people have of excessive reliance on machines.

Criticism Awareness

 by its technology, its institutions and mindset; but then the preconditions for takeoff, where we get the beginnings of a banking industry, the mechanization of work and the belief that growth is necessary for something beyond itself, like national dignity or a better life for the children;

A healthy economy should...

 for moving things around we burnt fuel in our cars and our trucks and what you really want to be able to avoid in this post-apocalyptic scenario it's for your society to regress to a state like this we've lost mechanization you can't run

How to rebuild the world...

 because of mechanization and also sort of a slumping caught world economy this was at a rally you know French left to protest this was it a protest against the raising of the retirement age