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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

— Alan Kay Alan Kay (1971)

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Similar remarks are attributed to Peter Drucker and Dandridge M. Cole. | Cf. Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (1963): "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." | Nigel Calder reviewed Gabor's book and wrote, "we cannot predict the future, but we can invent it..."

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