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Jamais Cascio Quotes

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Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Resilience Survival Thrive Goal Able

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

Water Energy Think Agriculture Earth

There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.

Beautiful Doubt No Doubt iPad Device

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

Today Tomorrow Ignoring Undermine

Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

Water Wind Environment Earth Human

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

Problem Results New Vulnerability

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

Focus Creative Mind Process Wander

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

Face Stop Now Right Out Still

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Great Stress Strategy Out Critical

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

Value Websites Real Useful Books

We've already seen digital picture frames pre-loaded with viruses; I'm not eager to have my refrigerator hacked or my alarm clock turned against me.

Me Picture Clock Digital Against

Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.

Culture People Building Back Born

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