future transformation Quotes

We were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs. We possessed powers which were irresistible ... our outlook on the future was transformed.

Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

The core businesses are transforming in very futuristic ways. You know, our aviation business, very interesting things are going on, and unmanned vehicles, drone technology, and things like that.

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

What is the future you're creating right now?

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.