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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

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Paul Saffo

When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

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Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

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The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

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I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get. " The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.

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I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a forecaster I am something very different. I am a professional bystander. I have opinions about the future, of course. But my whole posture is to be detached and to identify what I think will happen and not allow my judgments of what should happen to get involved.

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Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

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