The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.” – Marshall McLuhan
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The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.” – Marshall McLuhan
The most exciting breakthroughs of the twenty-first century will not occur because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
Frederic Laloux • REINVENTING ORGANIZATIONS
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom -
Isaac Asimov
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Paperback] Tegmark,
An Albert Einstein quote: “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
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“I think science is very young. I think eventually we will figure out that there is something much much bigger going on and that humans are just a curious little side-effect of a much bigger thing” – Lex Fridman
Tim Urban • #264 - Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
The artist picks up the message of cultural and technological challenge decades before its transforming impact occurs.
Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press
technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of thought and valuation,
Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press
As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time – literally – substantial and rapidly
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