Was just reminded of something I said a few years ago, which I have no recollection of whatsoever: If computers ever become self-aware, I very much doubt they’ll want to work in insurance.
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Information etiquette
From John Perry Barlow, “Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite” 1996
“Things of an informational nature, should be regarded as are love or friendship. You would never claim to own your friendships. You would never regard them as property. An ideal information exchange is more like friendship than it is like the exchange of physical goods.”
Got to thank the ever wonderful Alan S. for that one.
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” C.S. Lewis.
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I’m getting into deep looking (new book, long story) so this quote fits the bill.
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
Louise Gluck. (Quoted in Conde Nast Traveller).
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“C’est la vie, say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell.”
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“Sooner or later you’ll have a computer attached to your face.” David J. Hill.
The Five Stages of Disconnection
Just had my email down for about a week. Five stages: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Seems OK now.
Meanwhile been working on the final stages of my new megatrends map and there’s a megatrend on it I’ve called Easternisation. Then, this morning, I accidently found an old newspaper cutting that’s a review of a book called Easternisation by Gideon Rachman. It’s about war and peace in the Asian century. Guess that’s my subconscious working again!
Anyway, great quote in the review as follows:
“Railways and gunships are not enough. You need Shakespeare and the common law; you need blue jeans and Mickey Mouse. Without them you are left with the drivers of greed and fear, which will build you a working despotism, but never a civilization.”
Fear and greed…now there’s a couple of enduring megatrends.
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“In the area of politics our major policy obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.” Ed Murrow (1908-1965).
Brain Eno giving good quote
Sorry. It’s starting to become quote central. But I like this. A lot. Get over it. This man has a brain the size of a planet.
This is from SciFoo via Guy Weber via Roberto Trotta at Imperial.
I may actually blog something from my own small brain shortly….