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The future is clay moulded by a giant’s hands. Despite the billions of events and people and discoveries that contribute to our future, it tends to be a small number of major systemic issues that define it. Climate change and income inequality are the two hands of this epoch.
Economic Opportunities for Our Avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | l'Atelier
atelier.net
What makes technological transformation difficult to predict is the reality that it is caused not by any one invention, innovation, or individual, but instead requires many changes to come together. After a new technology is created, society and individual inventors respond to it, which leads to new behaviors and new products, which in turn lead to new use cases for the underlying technology, thereby inspiring additional behaviors and creations. And so on.
The Metaverse
Matthew Ball
The take-home from all this is phrased most aptly by Mark Twain: "We should be careful to get out of an experimessage ence only the wisdom that is in it-and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli
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