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Incomplete knowledge of the future, and also of the past of the transmitter from which the future might be constructed, is at the very basis of the concept of information.

— Dennis Gabor

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The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

Inventing the Future (1963)

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

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