15 quotes
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential.
Designing the Future (2007)
Yet at every turn, vested interests (those who have the most to gain in keeping things the way they are) oppose even technological changes... And so it goes.
Designing the Future (2007)
People are not equal without equal purchasing power.
Designing the Future (2007)
Most people are slaves to jobs they do not like because they need the money.
Designing the Future (2007)
The use of money results in social stratification and elitism based primarily on economic disparity.
Designing the Future (2007)
There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money.
Designing the Future (2007)
Money is just an interference between what one needs and what one is able to get. It is not money that people need, it is access to resources.
Designing the Future (2007)
Without large corporations controlling automobile manufacture for profit, all transportation systems can be designed as modular, continuously updated, and provided with the latest developments in technology.
Designing the Future (2007)
Although we accept the inevitability of change, humans meet it with a lot of resistance. In most cases, change threatens those in positions of advantage and for the most part they are there in the first place to keep things the way they are.
Designing the Future (2007)
Until scientific inquiry came of age, human beings could not comprehend their relationship to the physical world, so they invented their own explanations. These explanations tended to be simplistic and in many cases, harmful. For example, if one knows a tidal wave is approaching and chooses to stay and pray for deliverance rather than leaving, this could be detrimental to his/her survival... Scientists ask the question “what do we have here?” and then they proceed to do experiments to determine the nature of the physical world.
Designing the Future (2007)
The conflicts today with our fellow human beings are over opposing values and limited access to the necessities of life. If we manage to arrive at a saner future civilization, the conflicts will be against problems common to all humans.
Designing the Future (2007)
Most laws are enacted for the benefit of corporations, which have enough money to lobby, bribe, or persuade government officials to make laws that serve their interests....
Designing the Future (2007)
People usually blame themselves or “fate.” However, when two cars collide at an intersection, should we blame the individual drivers, “fate,” or the way transportation is engineered so that it permits collisions in the first place?
Designing the Future (2007)
The lives of most men and women are blighted by problems they cannot solve. Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, “I’m in charge,” in truth most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.
Designing the Future (2007)
Many people today see genes as a reason for aberrant behavior, but the major influences have been shown to be environmental... What is considered appropriate behavior today may be considered un-sane in the future...Better values, ideals, and behavior cannot be fully realized while there is still hunger, unemployment, deprivation, war, and poverty.
Designing the Future (2007)