Shaping Network Society » epistemology http://www.philippmueller.de www.philippmueller.de Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Inventing the Future http://www.philippmueller.de/inventing-the-future/ http://www.philippmueller.de/inventing-the-future/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:38:08 +0000 Philipp http://www.philippmueller.de/?p=591 As we are trying to understand and predict the impact of social media on our societies, it makes sense to go back to Alan Kay’s remark at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1971.

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!

What does it mean for strategy? And public administration? Government? What are the limits of our imagination and funding? And what are the limits of the ideology of engineering?

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