By The Year 2000, Most Americans Will

One Of The Basics Of A Good System Of Innovation Is Diversity. In Some Ways, The Stronger The Culture (national, Institutional, Generational, Or Other), The Less Likely It Is To Harbor Innovative Thinking. Common And Deep-seated Beliefs, Widespread Norms, And Behavior And Performance Standards Are Enemies Of New Ideas. Any Society That Prides Itself On Being Harmonious And Homogeneous Is Very Unlikely To Catalyze Idiosyncratic Thinking. Suppression Of Innovation Need Not Be Overt. It Can Be Simply A Matter Of Peoples Walking Around In Tacit Agreement And Full Comfort With The Status Quo.

When We Go To School, Very Often, We Don't See That Passion Because The Way School Is Run, The Disciplinary Nature Of It And The Rote Learning Are So, Sort Of, Offensive Actually, That Children Sort Of Lose That Passion More Often Than Not.

Nature Is Pretty Good At Networks, Self-organizing Systems. By Contrast, Social Systems Are Top-down And Hierarchical, From Which We Draw The Basic Assumption That Organization And Order Can Only Come From Centralism.

The Change From Atoms To Bits Is Irrevocable And Unstoppable. Why Now? Because The Change Is Also Exponential - Small Differences Of Yesterday Can Have Suddenly Shocking Consequences Tomorrow.

[industrial Design In 50 Years] Will Be Less About Looks And More About Personality Of Artifacts.