2025 A Fool’s Odyssey - An Open Letter to My Teenage Girls ...Also A Brave & Hopeless Attempt At...

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2025: A Fool’s Odyssey An Open Letter to My Teenage Girls Also A Brave & Hopeless Attempt At Predictions For The Near Future

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2025 A Fool's Odyssey An Open Letter to My Teenage Girls 1) Also A Brave & Hopeless Attempt At Predictions For The Near Future 2) "The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained" - Daniel Kahneman - Nobel Laureate 3) "The Beatles have no future in show business" - Dick Rowe - Decca Records 1962 4) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic."- Sir Arthur C. Clarke 5) "Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart. Smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them" - James Surowiecki - Journalist 6) "We already live in the future. It's not like we're waiting for something to happen, it's just a matter of doing it." - Bre Pettis - Makerbot CEO 7) "My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all, the information would just come to you as you needed it. This is the first form factor that can deliver that" - Sergey Brin - Google Co-Founder 8) "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." - Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia Co-Founder 9) "Within 5 to 10 years, most computers will look and feel just like these sheets of printed colour paper." - Roel Vertegaal - Human Media Lab Director 10) "We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas." - Michael Crichton - Author 11) "That's the old way, that's the old mantra: one machine, one human, one mouse, one screen. Well, that doesn't really cut it anymore." - John Underkoffler - Oblong CEO 12) "When you think of any aspect of life or work, augmented reality is completely going to change how we do it." - Ori Inbar - AR Pioneer 13) "Suddenly you could see my left hand was talking to my brain again and it was magic"- Dennis Aabo Sørensen - Clinical Study Volunteer 14) "At bottom, robotics is about us. It's the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work." - Rod Grupen - Director of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics 15) "Look Ma! No Hands!" - Everyone 16) "Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming." - Chris Lynch - Partner at Atlas Venture 17) "Instead of trying to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to simulates a child's? If this were subjected to an appropriate course of education, one would obtain the adult brain" - Alan Turing - Computer Science Pioneer 18) "We went from mainframes to desktops to laptops to tablets and phones. Everyone who thinks it will stop is wrong, it just keeps going down that curve, driven by Moore's Law." - Brian Krzanich - CEO, Intel 19) "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." - Emo Phillips - Comedian 20) Thank YOU! : ) Mike Darnell [email protected] @pop_art http://vimi.co http://facebook.com/digitalart

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2025: A Fool’s OdysseyAn Open Letter to My Teenage GirlsAlso A Brave & Hopeless Attempt At Predictions For The Near Future

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Daniel Kahneman - Nobel Laureate

“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained”

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Dick Rowe - Decca Records 1962“The Beatles have no future in show business”

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.”

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

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“Under the right circumstances,

groups are remarkably

smart.Smarter even

sometimes than the smartest

people in them”James Surowiecki -

Journalist

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Bre Pettis - Makerbot CEO

“We already live in the future. It’s not like we’re waiting for something to happen, it’s just a matter of doing it.”

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Sergey Brin - Google Co-Founder

“My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn’t have to have a search query at all, the information would just come to you as you needed it.This is the first form factor that can deliver that”

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“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.”

Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia Co-Founder

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“Within 5 to 10 years, most computers will look and feel just like these sheets of printed colour paper.”

Roel Vertegaal - Human Media Lab Director

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“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.”

Michael Crichton - Author

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“That’s the old way, that’s the old mantra: one machine, one human, one mouse, one screen. Well, that doesn’t really cut it anymore.”

John Underkoffler - Oblong CEO

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“When you think of any aspect of life or work, augmented reality is completely going to change how we do it.”

Ori Inbar - AR Pioneer

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“Suddenly you could see my left hand was talking to my brain again and it was magic”

Dennis Aabo Sørensen - Clinical Study Volunteer

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“At bottom, robotics is about us. It’s the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work.”Rod Grupen - Director of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics

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“Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.”

Chris Lynch - Partner at Atlas Venture

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“Instead of trying to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to simulates a child's? If this were subjected to an appropriate course of education, one would obtain the adult brain”

Alan Turing - Computer Science Pioneer

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“We went from mainframes to desktops to laptops to tablets and phones. Everyone who thinks it will stop is wrong, it just keeps going down that curve, driven by Moore's Law.”

Brian Krzanich - CEO, Intel

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Emo Phillips - Comedian

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

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Thank YOU!: )Mike [email protected]@pop_arthttp://vimi.cohttp://facebook.com/digitalart