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It was the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke who said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Storm in a Teacup
Helen Czerski
Tell a springboard story: a story that helps people see how an existing problem might change. Stephen Denning at the World Bank: a health worker in Zambia. You can extract a moral from a story, but you can’t extract a story from a moral.
Made to Stick
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The glut of knowledge has another27 interesting effect, as noted by author Stuart Firestein: It makes us more ignorant. That is to say, as our collective knowledge grows—as there is more and more to know, more than we can possibly keep up with—the amount that the individual knows, in relation to the growing body of knowledge, is smaller.
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
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