Bevor morgen…
... keiner mehr was ernstnimmt: Bruce Sterling im Elektrischen Reporter.
If you’re thinking about the future you need to put pessimism and optimism aside. They are intellectual vices. It´s like covering one eye and expecting to get a vernacular view. You really need to think about the future historically. You need to think about it with a historians dispassionate approach. You will not ask: Are you optimistic about the 19th century or pessimistic about the 19. century.I mean: Bad things happen, good things happen. Some bad things had good aspects later, some good things turned out to be bad in the long run. To make value judgements of that kind actually damages your ability to think clearly about what’s going to happen. So I think the propper attitude is neither optimism nor pessimism. It´s engagement. You are to care about it and you are to be in command of the facts. That´s what really matters.
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Schlagwörter: science-friction, société général | Abgelegt in science-friction,société général
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