The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values ... Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up to date complete files contained even the most personal information about the citizen. ibid.
Mutations are simply changes in genetic variation within a population. Irreducible Complexity Cut Down to Size, Youtube 31m, 2012
Dramatic change can be achieved one small step at a time. ibid.
Anyone can change and become fierce. Jane Fonda, cited Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Sky Atlantic 2018
Eco-systems did not tend towards stability but the very opposite was true. That nature far from seeking equilibrium was always in a state of dynamic and unpredictable change. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace II: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Networks, BBC 2011
But when the scientists did this, the computers began to reveal something they hadn’t expected. One tiny change in their equations could have massive catastrophic consequences which they could never have predicted: it was called Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory had a very powerful influence in the West because it rose up at the very moment the Soviet Union was collapsing. And it seemed to explain why all attempts at revolution had led to disaster: the world was just too complex for human beings to change in a predictable way. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert Kennedy
A million square miles across northern Russia … In winter it’s a permanently frozen wilderness … but in summer this landscape is completely transformed. Earth’s Natural Wonders I: Surviving the Extreme, BBC 2018
The Islands of Svalbard: within a few weeks frozen wastelands burst into life … from perpetual darkness to perpetual light, from frozen ice world to land of vibrant life … One of the planet’s most extreme changes. Earth’s Greatest Spectacles II: Svalbard, BBC 2016
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. John Updike
Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. Winston Churchill, attributed & variations
Could we change who we are? Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman s3e4: What Makes Us Who We Are? Science 2012
It is the nature of a man as he grows older – to protest against change, particularly changes for the better. John Steinbeck
Politics is the discussion of things which bring about real change in the world. Richard D Hall, Global Control, Richplanet TV 2012
The world’s changing and we gotta change with it. Boss of Bosses 2001 starring Chazz Palminteri & Angela Alvarado & Jay O Sanders & Richard Poronjy & Mark Margolis & Dayton Callie & Patricia Mauceri & Al Ruscio & Sonnt Marinelli & Philip Williams & Steven Bauer et al, director Dwight H Little, Paul
How to be healthier for longer. The good and bad habits. What are the changes we can all make? And what could the consequences be if we don’t? … The small lifestyle changes we can all make. Tonight: How to Age Well: Your Lifestyle, ITV 2023