History of the Future

If we are going to write the History of the Future, we had better make sure that we are the healthy ones.  For inspiration, listen to William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.  I have put it up at Faulkner.

Now Is Not Enough

Living in the now cannot be the goal.  If a molecule lives in the now, there is Brownian Motion, but random motion isn't enough.  There must be a vector.  The molecule that risks a vector is skating on thin ice, but without the explorer, there is no science.

Gold Nugget from Drucker

Few people have noticed that Drucker ("Management for the 21st Century") makes the distinction between the reader and the listener.  What this means is that there are two entities on the "other side" of the equation: the writer and the talker.  But what about the writer who is read by the reader to the listener?