Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’. The line it… Read More “You Don’t Need to Embrace Change” – Some Advice You Won’t be Reading These Days
“We would rather be ruined than changed…” W. H. Auden, quoted by Juan Enriquez, The Untied States of America ———- It really is breathtaking…just how fast we adapt to the new world, and how quickly we abandon, and forget, the old. Think: how could we live without our cell phones? Yet, for the history of… Read More “The United States Will Not Exist As A Nation” – And Other, Less Wild And Scary Thoughts About The Future
Last night, I heard quite an enlightening segment on the foreclosure crisis on The Newshour (PBS. But, yes , I “heard” it – in my car, on KERA, our local NPR station, in its radio broadcast of The Newshour). Here’s the description of the segment: NATIONWIDE FORECLOSURE INVESTIGATION | Some lenders have put a temporary… Read More Good Change; Bad Change – So Promising; So Threatening (Thoughts on the Foreclosure Crisis)
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” Winston Churchill —————————– I’ve been thinking a lot about what has changed without us hardly noticing it – until after it has happened. For example: • I now read e-mail, and blog posts, and news sites, during commercials while watching television – on my iPhone.… Read More Technology is not Kind, Does Not Wait — and continues to change the world
Boy, those old staid companies sure do get in trouble because they fail to innovate. Yes, the times are changing, and companies better learn how to stay fresh, keep improving, keep changing. When they’ve been around forever, it is awfully easy to get set in their ways, and watch the competition sweep right on by… Read More (The Woes of MySpace) The Future is Utterly Predictable — it is a Future of Constant Innovation
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