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Exactly! As Alan Kay said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it". I don't find it is so important that people like Jobs, Gates, Brin, etc. have s
by cefstat 14y ago
Exactly! As Alan Kay said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it".
I don't find it is so important that people like Jobs, Gates, Brin, etc. have sometimes correctly predicted the future. What is important is that they executed, and turned these predictions to reality. Even more. They turned these predictions to everyday reality for most people, instead of a select few.
It annoys me when these people are compared to people who just throw a million ideas around and then, when one of these ideas becomes reality, they claim that they are so good at predicting the future.
- molmalo 14y agoThat quote came to my mind, while I was writing my comment, and I think it's magnificent. I love it, because it basically tells you: Don't lay there just dreaming about the future, go out and build the future!
- gruseom 14y agoAlan Kay said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it". Kay popularized that quote, but didn't invent it. It goes back to a 1963 book called Inventing the Future by physicist Dennis Gabor: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/