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" As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too. "
Jamais Cascio
Value
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" Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' "
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" Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? "
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" Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process. "
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" Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real. "
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Real
" Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming. "
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" Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. "
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" Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast. "
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" In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails. "
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" I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens to make phone calls. Strict control over apps minimizes the chances that someone will find their phone hacked or virus-laden. "
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Purpose
Control
Phone
" Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves. "
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World
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" Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. "
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Survival
Goal
Unexpected
" Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear. "
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" Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans. "
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New
Weak
Results
" Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today. "
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Today
Future
Challenges
" Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. "
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Think
Energy
Water
" Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. "
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Unwanted
Commercial
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" Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. "
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Human
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Earth
" The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history. "
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World
Revolution
History
" Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it. "
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Content
Need
Now
" When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. "
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Language
Memory
Space
" Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements. "
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Engineers
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" With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles. "
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Fragile
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Design
" I do think that fashion may end up being the 'killer app' for wearable augmented reality systems. This is in part because it's not simply task-oriented - like finding a restaurant or where your friend is currently lounging about - but experience-oriented. It becomes part of your life. "
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" The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare. "
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