Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. … - Paul Saffo

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Paul Saffo

Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't cyberspace. It's cyberbia. It's this vast, bland wasteland of vulgar people and trivial ideas and pictures of half-naked starlets. But despite all the uncertainty, has there ever been a more fascinating moment to be alive?

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Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

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The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

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I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get. " The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.

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I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a forecaster I am something very different. I am a professional bystander. I have opinions about the future, of course. But my whole posture is to be detached and to identify what I think will happen and not allow my judgments of what should happen to get involved.

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Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

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