We’ve put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that’s lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it’s time we...
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes. — Freeman Dyson Tags: #Purpose, #Thinking, #Predict, #FreemanDyson, #American, #PhysicistMini who’s who: Freeman Dyson : American Physicist Born: December 15,...
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you’d need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don’t have anything like that. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Tags:...
Not only have computers changed the way we think, they’ve also discovered what makes humans think – or think we’re thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it. — Douglas Rushkoff Tags: #Thinking, #Influence, #Predict,...
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. — Edward...