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Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050

Long Now

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The Story Telling Trap

CNN's John Sutter takes a look at some of the things he learned from last time around. He says technology is inexorably moving ahead, but we need to slow it down. Technology can't really be predicted; innovation starts with an actof creativity out of one's head. We overestimate the impact of technology in the short term and underestimate the effect in the long run,. The lesson from all this is politics matter, which we'll get to later.

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