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food for thought: on the future
- “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
- “The most exciting breakthrough of the 21st century will
occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept
of what it means to be human.” – John Naisbitt
- “The real social revolution of the last 30 years, one
we are still living through, is the switch from a life that is
largely organized for us, once we have opted into it, to a world
in which we are all forced to be in charge of our own destiny….
For some this is exciting freedom. We can write our own script
for our life instead of acting out a part that someone else has
written for us. For others it is a horrible insecurity.”
– Charles Handy, The Hungry Spirit
- “The new economy begins with technology and ends with
trust.” – Alan Weber, founder of Fast Company
- “The factory of the future will have only two employees,
a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog
will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.”
– Warren Bennis
- “Resolved: Innovation will be the single most important
factor in determining America’s success through the 21st
century.” – Innovate America, Council on Competitiveness,
December 2004
- “The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance
is human attention.” – Kevin Kelly, New Rules for
the New Economy
- “Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more
difficult problem.” – Henry Kissinger
- “The human race is challenged more than ever before to
demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves."
– Rachel Carson
- “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at
the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
- “Life is a progress, and not a station.” –
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker
- “In three years, every product my company makes will be
obsolete. The only question is whether we’ll make them obsolete
or somebody else will.” – Bill Gates
- “Play where the puck is going to be.” – Wayne
Gretzky
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