I don’t know much about Jeremy Rifkin other than Time Magazine called him “the most hated man in science,” but I found this quote interesting;
“The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment of the quick fix…Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves in increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.”
Economist Jeremy Rifkin
via The Surfers Journal
article Gone Bamboo by Gavin Ehringer
Volume 18, Number 4
[…] “The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment of the quick fix…Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves in increasingly alienated from the […] Original Source… […]