In April 2006, Susan Greenfield sponsored a debate ( More ) in the house of Lords based around the impact of the latest technologies on the way young people might think and learn differently from previous generations.
In her book The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century - ( book review she writes
The more I thought about it, the more fascinated I became with how we define ourselves and others, which in turn relates to how fulfilled we are as individuals
She goes on
In his book The Meaning of the 21st Century, James Martin argues that we shouldn't just ask what is going to happen, but how we are going to shape the future
This is interesting in that I believe people are perhaps starting to believe that fact - as Howard Rheingold says
What we make is up to us
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!"
— Alan Kay in 1971
Source: http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html
Posted by: gersbo | July 04, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Gersbo
Niiiiiiiice quote
Thanks for posting
Alan
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