Last week I committed to writing about the global trends futurists consider when studying humanities’ ways of seeing and being in the world. For each global trend, we look for its pattern of behaviour as well as its anticipated direction…
In 1609, Francis Bacon declared, “Knowledge is power; the more one knows the more one can control events.” Four hundred years later, I would venture to say that this is no longer viewed as a universal truth. What has changed? …
On one of my many fishing adventures on the internet, I came upon this quote from George Bernard Shaw, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore…
This Joy Blog marks the beginning of my new way of being in the world. Throughout my life, writing has led me deeper into awareness and understanding, but always under the cloak of a more solitary intimacy. However over the…
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