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Cornell professor Karl Pillemer admits he’s an advice junkie.
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool.
What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see …
One reason people are frequently caught by surprise by the future — be it the emergence of a new technology, the disruption of an old business model, or an unexpected shift in human behavior — is because they make the assumption that just because something has never happened in the past that it never will happen in the future.