Peter Drucker Quotes about Technology

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In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

Peter Drucker

Technology, Important Events, Numbers

For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.

Peter Drucker

Technology, Benefits, New Technology

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Peter Drucker

Technology, Data, Organization

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.12, Routledge

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

Peter Drucker

Technology, Opportunity, Yesterday

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.67, Routledge

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Peter Drucker

Technology, Innovation, Economics

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.92, Routledge

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

Peter Drucker

Technology, Men, Tools

Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.7, Routledge

The computer is a moron.

Peter Drucker

Work, Technology, Intellectual

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Peter Drucker

Business, Communication, Technology

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Peter Drucker

Change, Believe, Technology

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.4, Routledge