A Brief History of Motion Quotes

“In the words of the American urbanist Lewis Mumford, writing in 1961, suburbia was “a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold.”
― Tom Standage, A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

“what looks like a quick fix today may well end up having far-reaching and unintended consequences tomorrow.”
― Tom Standage, A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

“Many of our technology-related problems arise because of the unforeseen consequences when apparently benign technologies are employed on a massive scale.”
― Tom Standage, A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next