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We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Roy Amara

Roy Amara

Born: April 7, 1925
Died: December 31, 2007 (aged 82)
Bio: Roy Charles Amara was a researcher, scientist and past president of the Institute for the Future. He also worked at the Stanford Research Institute. He held a BS in Management, an MS in the Arts and Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering.

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