ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S THREE LAWS OF FORECASTING:
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Your brain is a satellite.
Out there is your mind.
WHERE WILL IDEAS COME FROM IN THE FUTURE? Many of us would answer that they will come from the people we have always counted on in the academy, laboratories, the gatherings of established experts and institutions. But, if we search our histories, we will discover that new and promising ideas have also come from a wider universe of players–from ‘outsiders’. We believe that as we move further into the 21st century, success will increasingly depend on ‘out there’ possibilities and thinkers to bring fresh perspectives and novel solutions.
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