Quotes About Future

Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind.

For example, Israeli nationalism is very concerned about the question "Will Jerusalem be ruled by Israelis or Palestinians a century from now?" but it does not concern itself with the question "Will Earth be ruled by Sapiens or cyborgs a century from now?

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Similarly, if in 2070 you tell the lower classes that they enjoy better healthcare than in 2017, it might be very cold comfort to them, because they would be comparing themselves to the upgraded superhumans who dominate the world.

In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products - you will above all need to reinvent yourself again and again.

Puesto que pronto podremos manipular también nuestros deseos, quizá la pregunta real a la que nos enfrentamos no sea «¿En qué deseamos convertirnos?», sino «¿Qué queremos desear?». Aquellos que no se espanten ante esta pregunta es que probablemente no han pensado lo suficiente en ella.

Humanity has very little time left to wean itself from fossil fuels.

If some politicians don't understand these questions, or if they constantly talk about the past without being able to formulate a meaningful vision for the future, don't vote for them.

Hayvan-insan ili?kisi, gelecekte süperinsanlarla insanlar aras?nda kurulacak ili?kiye en yak?n model olma özelli?i ta??r. Süperzeki siborglar?n etten kemikten, s?radan insanlara nas?l davranaca??n? m? merak ediyorsunuz? ?nsanlar?n daha az zeki hayvan akrabalar?na nas?l davrand???yla ba?lamak sa?l?kl? olabilir.

In 2010 only 2 per cent of Americans worked in agriculture and 20 per cent worked in industry, while 78 per cent worked as teachers, doctors, webpage designers and so forth. When mindless algorithms are able to teach, diagnose and design better than humans, what will we do?

Como bomberos en un mundo sin fuego, en el siglo XXI la humanidad necesita plantearse una pregunta sin precedentes: ¿qué vamos a hacer con nosotros?

Esta es la mejor razón para aprender historia: no para predecir el futuro, sino para desprendernos del pasado e imaginar destinos alternativos. Desde luego, esto no supone la libertad total: no podemos evitar estar moldeados por el pasado. Pero algo de libertad es mejor que ninguna.

What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This

que nadie imaginaba ni deseaba.

The second cognitive revolution, dreamed up by techno-humanists, might do the same to us, producing human cogs who communicate and process data far more effectively than ever before, but who can hardly pay attention, dream or doubt. For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.

Yet can the economic pie grow indefinitely? Every pie requires raw material and energy. Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo Sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?

As robots and AI push humans out of the job market, the ultra-Orthodox Jews may come to be seen as the model for the future rather than as a fossil from the past. Not that everyone will become Orthodox Jews and go to yeshivas to study the Talmud. But in the lives of all people, the quest for meaning and community might eclipse the quest for a job.

The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. But since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, the real question facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but 'What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought.

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A revolução tecnológica pode, em breve, deixar milhões de seres humanos fora do mercado de trabalho e criar uma gigantesca classe social inútil, levando a convulsões sociais e políticas que nenhuma ideologia existente sabe como gerir.

The writing is on the wall: equality is out – immortality is in.

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It is dangerous to trust or future to market forces, because these forces do what's good for the market rather than what's good for humankind or for the world.

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