Quote of the Week: Inventing the Future
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay
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The Future of Computers…
I am extracting this great innovation from an email I got from Ari Cartun: Look closely and guess what they could be… Are they pens with cameras? Any wild guesses? No clue yet? You’ve just looked into the future… yep that’s right! You’ve just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future. [...]
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Quote of the Week: Free Speech, Democracy, and Authoritarianism
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. -Herbert Clark HOOVER 31st President of the United States (1874-1964) This, indeed, is one of the paramount challenges faced by democratic systems. Democracy cannot [...]
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Prius in NYC – the future is coming…
Earlier this week I rode on my first hybrid taxi in NYC and was ecstatic for a few reasons. First because this environmental victory for all of us is the work of my friend Jack Hidary, who for years lobbied the NY State and City governments to reverse policies that actually prevented hybrids in the [...]
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Leaders Forging A New Future In Northern Gaza
You may be surprised to learn about some of what is happening in Gaza. Read this letter: Dear All, Onevoice movement in the Gaza Strip expanded its campaign and organized its fifth Town Hall Meeting in the North of the Gaza Strip. The Objective to introduce the Movement & gather support for the two states [...]
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Quote of the Week: Madiba’s Eight Lessons
Richard Stengel summarized Nelson Mandela’s eight leadership lessons – Madiba’s Rules (Mandela’s clan name) in TIME Magazine: All of them are calibrated to cause the best kind of trouble: the trouble that forces us to ask how we can make the world a better place. No. 1: Courage is not the absence of fear — [...]
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