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I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you app...

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Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Peopl...

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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good e...

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Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more preci...

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Gene RoddenberryStar Trek I: The Motion Picture

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisu...

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The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduce...

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George FriedmanThe Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoa...

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To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a centur...

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The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious ...

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George OrwellThe Road to Wigan Pier

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathem...

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The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a ...

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There is also a trilogy of books out. I started reading right after Christmas Divergent. I went to r...

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Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in ...

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Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a...

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Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the po...

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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...

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This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no mor...

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar...

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Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media c...

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War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that s...

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However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should the...

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Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetti...

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Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so)...

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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting o...

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If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the...

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The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of t...

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in whi...

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The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying the...

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No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

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With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern ...

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social...

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For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everythi...

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Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

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Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

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Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

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Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

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Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day lo...

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Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication are quickly outpacing laws and technology de...

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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal...

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Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantit...

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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...

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It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was ...

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But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just...

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This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work ...

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Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The st...

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Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian ...

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Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

When I work with experimental gadgets, like new variations on virtual reality, in a lab environment,...

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Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A n...

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Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ...

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The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures mor...

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Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Cat...

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Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every ...

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An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the onl...

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People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme...

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A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact ...

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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

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Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation