“Looking into the future is difficult and projections are frequently wrong, being based as they usually are on the status quo. But sometimes, a view of the way things are can help with a kind of simulated clairvoyant foresight. Little argument exists against the empirical view that things are in bad shape today – the economy is on everyone’s mind, the environment is a concern for many, and our future on earth seems troubled, if not actually threatened at times. One of the annoying things I notice about our situation today is our propensity to believe we can solve the problems we have today thinking in the same manner as we thought when we created these problems. Of course this is a blatant restatement of an Einsteinian principal, nonetheless appropriate.”

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