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Now is history. Get over it.

May 21, 2008 in Ideas

That’s a headline from a slide I just dropped from the talk I’m giving this morning. But I still like the line, so I’m sticking it here.

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May 22, 2008 at 1:12 am

Russell Nelson

Only time will tell, unless we can torture the present and get it to rat on the future.

May 22, 2008 at 3:35 am

Crosbie Fitch

Our history tells us our future in every respect apart from the nature of the tools we’ll use.

We can’t get over our history.

We can’t get over the fact that it tells us our future.

In denial we convince ourselves that our future is a virgin and undiscovered land to which us few pilgrim cognoscenti may emigrate and colonise, avoiding the mistakes that history tells us we’ll repeat.

May 22, 2008 at 11:53 am

Mike Warot

History repeats itself,
if you do the same thing again,
and you expect something different,
you’re insane.

If you don’t know history,
you don’t know you’re doing the same thing again
and again
and again

–Mike–

May 22, 2008 at 5:02 pm

Chip

Makes me think of SciFi
From HG Wells to AE VanVogt and maybe a bit of Philip K. Dick

Of course, for the Buddhist, it may be a moot point

or Gibran : http://www.katsandogz.com/onchildren.html
We are history

May 22, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Nick

Is this the same premise as Geoff Livingston and Brian Solis’s book?

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