Freeman Dyson Quotes:
Ocupation: Physicist
Life: b. December 15, 1923
Birthday: December 15
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.
source: "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.
topic: Country, Science, Technology, South Korea, Microchips, Old Technology, East Asia, Three Generations
