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The Future and Innovation

Jun 21, 2015

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John Cousins

Forecasting the future and what technology will look like is challenging. Here are some musings on looking past the horizon.
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Cautionary

Those who don’t study the future, are doomed to live in it.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Bucky

• "We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking..." --R. Buckminster Fuller

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dream Big

• "If you can dream - and not make dreams your master." --Rudyard Kipling

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Thinkers Futurists• Caroline Buckee• Regina Dugan• Tony Fadell• Mary Lou Jepsen• Sugata Mitra• Elon Musk• Andrew Ng• Jennifer Pahka• Bre Pettis• Shyam Sankar