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These sayings are not identical in meaning, but I think they fit together naturally as a group. Could you explore the origin of these expressions? Boldface has been added to the following passage and some excerpts further below: 2. We are still the masters of our fate. Rational thinking, even assisted by any conceivable electronic computors, cannot predict the future.
All it can do is to map out the probability space as it appears at the present and which will be different tomorrow when one of the infinity of possible states will have materialized. Technological and social inventions are broadening this probability space all the time; it is now incomparably larger than it was before the industrial revolution—for good or for evil.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive. In March the book was reviewed in the periodical New Scientist by the editor and writer Nigel Calder who found the saying memorable enough to include a rephrased version in his review: 3. His basic approach is that we cannot predict the future, but we can invent it , hence his title.
He is essentially optimistic. In Orville Freeman, the U. Secretary of Agriculture, employed the same concise version of the saying during a government conference, and he credited Gabor: 4.
In a book containing speculations about the near future included an essay by Garrett Hardin who used the phrase three times: 5. As the engineer Dennis Gabor has aptly pointed out, we cannot predict the future but we can invent it.
We are, in a word, responsible for what we say. Answering these questions would require prediction, and as Gabor pointed out we cannot predict the future. We can only invent it. Alan Kay has stated that he originated the maxim of the form: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. He began to use the saying in The details of this claim are given further below in the text of a email from Kay. In a variant of the saying was credited to a different Nobel Prize winning scientist during a speech at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Bal Harbour, Florida.
The speaker was on the staff of the Congressional Research Service, and he ascribed the adage to Ilya Prigogine who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 6.
I end on a note from Prigogine, who said that the way to cope with the future is to create it. In April the periodical InfoWorld covered a conference about computers in schools.
One of the best methods comes from the greatest entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurs, people who have created two or more successful businesses. In the face of an unknown, unpredictable future, these entrepreneurs act. Specifically they:. Top Stories. Top Videos. Oh sure, some things, like demographics, are still fairly easy to predict.
You can calculate, with a high degree of confidence, the world population in because:. Figure out what they want. Take a small step toward making it reality.
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