The Future and Innovation
Jun 21, 2015
The Futureand Innovation
Cautionary
Those who don’t study the future, are doomed to live in it.
Think
• "The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create." --Leonard I. Sweet
• "If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one." --John Golsworthy
Invent
• "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Theodore Hook
• "The only way you can predict the future is to build it." -Alan Kay
Antique Futures
• "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Imagination
• "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." -Malcolm X
• "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." --Charles F. Kettering
• "The future will soon be a thing of the past." ~ George Carlin
Future Shock• The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those who cannot read or write; they will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. --Alvin Toffler
• "The future always arrives too fast... and in the wrong order." --Alvin Toffler, futurologist and writer
The Age of Possiblities
• "The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future." --Gifford Pinchot
• "It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance." --Andrei Linde
• "A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." --Sidney J. Harris
Beyond 2001
• If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. --Arthur C. Clarke
• Geo-Synchronous Satellites
Bucky
• "We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking..." --R. Buckminster Fuller
Explanation and Prediction
• "We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future." --Max Planck
Innovation
• "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." --Winston Churchill
• "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." --Henry Ford
Knowledge is Power
• "As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time." --Francis Bacon
• "We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic." --Winston Churchill
Extrapolation
• "It don't matter as long as you get where you're going, cause none of the shit is going to mean shit where we're going." --Eminem
• "You can never plan the future by the past." -Edmund Burke
Dream Big
• "If you can dream - and not make dreams your master." --Rudyard Kipling
Paradigm Shifts
• "An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out." --Max Planck
Get There• "Keep on the lookout for
novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on." --Thomas Edison
• "I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing." --Thomas Edison
Understanding• "Too often we forget that
genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions." --Ernest Dimnet
• "Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached." --Werner Karl Heisenberg
Think Different• "For I dipt into the future,
far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be." --Alfred Lord Tennyson
• "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." --Nikola Tesla
• "I'm looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." --Henry Ford
Thinkers Futurists• Caroline Buckee• Regina Dugan• Tony Fadell• Mary Lou Jepsen• Sugata Mitra• Elon Musk• Andrew Ng• Jennifer Pahka• Bre Pettis• Shyam Sankar