Government
"The sad truth is that the opposite of 'war' is not 'peace'." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"Rest assured, there are no utopias and conflict will not go away in the future. If life became too easy, we would lose our motivation to move forward. However, we have an opportunity now to move into an era with a far better grade of conflict, with problem sets that are infinitely more interesting." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"The health of a nation is inversely proportional to the number of laws needed to govern it." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
Space
"The human race cannot survive if all humans only live on one planet." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
Technology
"All technology is approaching invisibility" - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"All information, ever created, is still in existence." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"The average house in 2010 will have 100 computers, embedded in all kinds of appliances and amenities, and mostly networked to each other, and to the Web." - Glen Hiemstra - Futurist.Com
"He who controls the weather, will control the world. He who controls gravity, will control the universe. He who controls time, will never be around." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"Sometime between 2010 and 2020 it will become clear that human beings are no longer the smartest things on earth. This will be profoundly disturbing for many." - Glen Hiemstra - Futurist.Com
"Talking computers will replace written language by 2050." - Dr. William Crossman - Director Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Cultures
"Cloned dinosaurs will once again walk the planet." - Watts Wacker - CEO and Futurist, First Matter
"The first cloned human life will be created, using a surrogate mother, and whether cloned humans get to keep their memories - whether giving them the ability to do so gives them a fundamental cognitive advantage over non-cloned humans - will be a leading bioethical concern." - Watts Wacker - CEO and Futurist, First Matter
Demographic Trends
"Somewhere on planet earth lives a young child who will be the first person to live…forever." - Glen Hiemstra -Futurist.Com
In about the year 2015 the first Global Conference will convene on the following question: "What are we to do about the impending decline in the world population, expected to begin declining about the year 2025?" Coping with an annual decline in world population will turn out to be a more vexing problem that coping with population growth. - Glen Hiemstra - Futurist.Com
Provocative Questions
"The year is 2050, and you are standing in front of a vending machine. What form of payment will you put into it?" - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"People who live to be 65 today in the United States live an average of an additional 18 years. Over the first two decades of the 21st Century, because of advances in health care, nutrition, exercise, wealth, and biotechnologies of various kinds, this average will increase toward 30 years, then 40 years after age 65. How will we reinvent the third phase of life now called retirement?" - Glen Hiemstra -Futurist.Com
"If you were on the jury trying to decide the fate of a murderous criminal, and you had the choice to decide between sending him to the electric chair or to a sentence of total amnesia, which would you decide?" - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
Miscellaneous
"Technology that allows us to view past events will become the most important tool ever invented for criminal investigations." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"Amnesia therapy will someday become widely used on individual's brains to erase select pieces of human memory that cause traumatic impairment." - Thomas Frey - Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute
"The age of reason has ended, and now we must organize around chaos." - Watts Wacker - CEO and Futurist, First Matter
“Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.” - Harriet Ruben - Founder Doubleday/Currency Book Publisher
