Many years ago Buckminster Fuller wrote a book with the title of this note. He saw then what is clear to more and more people now. Humanity is getting close to a critical point or singularity. Ray Kurzweil, together with other thinkers, foresees a near future of great promise. Around 2025, according to his calculations, the rate of technological change will increase to such a point that we will be surprised. I just found out that the iPhone in Mexico will sell for half the price as in the US. Both markets are different and I can see the need of such a move, but it still surprises me nevertheless.
At the same time the deterioration of the environment is even clearer here in the Third World, than in Illinois, where I was just a few months ago. Is there a signal in all this?
I believe so. The moment predicted by Fuller is with us. We have to get ready; may you live in interesting times.
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