Day: August 20, 2010
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The future is now
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.Alvin Toffler
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What I’m hearing
In a news story yesterday they were talking about how the rate of giving is much less for the flood victims of Pakistan than it was for the earthquake victims in Haiti. They asked if it was donor fatigue.But, they didn’t ask the one question that I heard at the lunch table today, “Why should…