| "The future is getting here sooner than ever. We need to prepare ourselves and create rather than await the future." -- Jack Latona |
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| The Center for Creating the Future is a non-profit organization based in Fort Lauderdale. It offers ongoing education to help you prepare for the future. Visit our library and our online discussion list. Our Topics List is a "portal" or gateway to a collection of articles that begin to navigate the flood of information that we all need to absorb to get ready... |
Here are some quotes that drive us crazy (and motivate us to update this web site often, to keep it useful for the on-going continuing education that we all need to prepare for the future) "We don't have time to discuss long-term problems. We have too many short-term problems to worry about." (Stated by a member of an oversight board who wanted to move along a meeting's agenda.) Nuggets: Phrases that capture the essence of the Center's mission "Technology trumps ideology." No matter how much the ideology of environmentalists predicted the downful of the ecosystem due to overpopulation, technology enabled greater food production, virus control, vaccinations and engineering to improve living cirucmstances. Malthus was wrong. His ideology was trumped by technology. Hardin's Law: "You can't do just one thing." When you save the otters, the abalone population plummets. When you save millions of children from mosquitos and malaria, DDT weakens the shells of birds and their populations drop. "The future is getting here sooner than ever. We need to prepare ourselves and create rather than await the future." -- Jack Latona "The individual long-term is getting longer. Long-term problems are arriving sooner." -- Jack Latona |
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| We're in good company... "The time to get ready for the next society is now." Peter Drucker, The Economist www.economist.com 13 November 2001 |
| Our challenge is not to see what no one yet has seen... But to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees. -- Schopenhauer Paraphrase for 21st Century: Our challenge is not to describe what no one has yet to see,... but to think in a new way about something that everyone sees today. ... or... "to see something new about the beliefs shared by most people" -- WRITE IF you have a different wording There is no doubt that the pace of change is still accelerating, not just in technology but in every corner of our lives. The range of choices we now have, diversity in the widest sense, was unimaginable a few short years ago. We believe the future will bring, as it has in the past, much more good than harm. We believe that much of that future is foreseeable and that we should recognize that and begin to prepare for it, to create it. |
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Another quote from Peter Drucker: "If you can't predict the future, then create it." |
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| From: John Clavis" <[email protected]> Dear CFCF Folks, Here's my offering: "Our challenge is not to describe what others have yet to see, but to see what others have yet to describe." |
| The next meeting of the Discussion Group is on the last THURSDAY of the month 7-8:30 p.m. Bring a friend. 201 E. Davie Blvd., Fort Lauderdale James Randi Education Foundation We will discuss the future of Downtown Fort Lauderdale... ... ... how do we pay for what we want? And who should pay? ... Special MORNING DISCUSSION February 26 BCC Tower, 12th Floor 7:30 to 9 am "The Future of Downtown Fort Lauderdale" Click here to see the H/ArtWALK From the Discussion in January: The Future of Taxes "What is the best level of taxation? What is a better way of handling health insurance?" From the Discussion on Dec. 19 The Future of Education: attendance is importnat for the success of schools, but size of class is less of a predictor of distruption of classes. From the Discussion on October 31 (Halloween): There is some relevant info in Alvin Tofler's book THIRD WAVE: Click here to go to THIRD WAVE QUOTE By the way, visit the BOGOTA Symposium: http://www.geocities.com/futureofparking/photosbogota.html |
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COMING SOON: November 1 The Bogota Symposium From: Anthony Abbate [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: Bogota Symposium Through the Arango Design Foundation and with the help of local sponsors, including Tom Gustafson, there will be a symposium and presentation of the Bogota Project in October in Fort Lauderdale. The invited guest presenters include Dr. Enrique Penalosa, Ex-Mayor of Bogota who was instrumental in getting the project underway; Mr. Jose Salazar, Director of the "Taller de la Ciudad" (City-Studio) who was responsible for the overall design of the infrastructure and urban design elements; and Mr. Lorenzo Castro, Director of Planning and Logistics for the project. They will describe the public process and the design process for this remarkable project which won the Stockholm Challenge Award in 2000, being selected from among 600 cities world-wide. More information at: http://www.ecoplan.org/votebogota2000/general/bogotaproject.htm We hope to confirm dates and speakers in the next few weeks. |
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| Jack Latona established the Center for Creating the Future, Inc., in 2001 as a think tank to further explore concepts about the future he had developed for a university course on The Millennium. In addition to their theoretical interest, these concepts have significant practical applications for businesses and other organizations. As a result, The Center�s web site now has two sections, one to continue theoretical discussion of the future, the other to provide information on how The Center can assist organizations to begin to create their futures now. Please CLICK HERE to go to the Center�s new web site at www.creatingthefuture.org. Click HERE for the H/Artwalk Future of Fort Lauderdale |