The Ridiculous Future
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:30 pm
I heard Avantage if quote, today. Unfortunately, I can only paraphrase.
I remember in the late 1980s listening to a talk show where one of the guests was floating the idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to be President. I don't think Schwarzenegger will become President. I think his time as governor killed that, but it became apparent that the man did have political aspirations.
I've seen California newspapers from the 1960s with a young Ronald Reagan's political aspirations being a regular feature.
I recently saw a newspaper article from the 1990s. It was stating that Donald Trump had decided he wouldn't be running for President, at this time.
I remember talking to a co-worker some twenty-five years ago. She had spent her weekend in the lovely seaside town of Monterey, California. What had she done in that lovely town on a weekend when the weather was sublime? She stayed inside and listened to lectures from about technology, education and design. I thought she was nuts! A couple of decades later, I learn about this phenomenon called TED and that it got its start in the lovely seaside town of Monterey, California.
I'm fresh out of ridiculous ideas, but the thought gives me hope.
There are so many so many changes and advances in society that, frequently, just twenty years before they happened, the very notion would have been ridiculous.In predicting the future, the thought must first be considered ridiculous.
I remember in the late 1980s listening to a talk show where one of the guests was floating the idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to be President. I don't think Schwarzenegger will become President. I think his time as governor killed that, but it became apparent that the man did have political aspirations.
I've seen California newspapers from the 1960s with a young Ronald Reagan's political aspirations being a regular feature.
I recently saw a newspaper article from the 1990s. It was stating that Donald Trump had decided he wouldn't be running for President, at this time.
I remember talking to a co-worker some twenty-five years ago. She had spent her weekend in the lovely seaside town of Monterey, California. What had she done in that lovely town on a weekend when the weather was sublime? She stayed inside and listened to lectures from about technology, education and design. I thought she was nuts! A couple of decades later, I learn about this phenomenon called TED and that it got its start in the lovely seaside town of Monterey, California.
I'm fresh out of ridiculous ideas, but the thought gives me hope.