beelden en quotes over de toekomst

Hier mijn verzameling van mooie foto's, artikelen en quotes over de toekomst

Al deze electronica (en nog veel meer) uit dit oude reclamekrantje, zit nu in je smartphone.

Het is tegenwoordig erg ongezellig in het openbaar vervoer met al die sociale media.

 Dit kan toch niet waar zijn? Vliegen in de touristclass in 1965? Waarom kan dat nu niet meer?

De beroemde ‘horseless carriage’ heeft echt bestaan.

En dan hier een van de eerste draagbare telefoons.

Lees hier het Interview in Zest juli 2017

Verzameling met 200 uitspraken over de toekomst.

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1. Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29.18)
2. A man must rise above the earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives. *(Socrates circa 399 voor Chr.)
3. Niemand zal ooit de evenaar kunnen oversteken. De verticale stralen van de zon zullen de oceanen aldaar tot het kookpunt verhitten en de schepen in brand steken. (Ptolemeus 200 voor chr.)
4. Ik zal geen aandacht meer besteden aan alle ideeën voor nieuwe oorlogswerktuigen en machines. Er bestaan geen mogelijkheden meer voor nieuwe uitvindingen en evenmin voor verbeteringen.  (Julius Frontinus in 10 na chr  hoofd techniek in het leger van Vespianus.);
5. Er is niets moeilijker aan te pakken en niets gevaarlijker uit te voeren, niets onzekerder wat succes betreft dan het voortouw te nemen  bij de invoering van een nieuwe orde van zaken. Want de vernieuwer heeft als vijanden al degenen die het goed deden in de oude orde en  vindt slechts lauwe ondersteuning van hen die het misschien goed gaan doen in de nieuwe orde. (Il principio: Niccolo Machiavelli - 1513)
6. A certain Liquor which they call Coffee...which will soon intoxicate the brain. G. W. Parry (1601)
7. Mijnheer. U wilt een schip tegen de wind en tegen de stroom in laten varen door onder het dek een vuur te stoken? Misschien wilt u mij verontschuldigen. Ik heb geen tijd om naar zulke onzin te luisteren. (Napoleon Bonaparte tegen Robert Fulton - 1798)
8. Het zijn de treinen, de expressepost, de stoomboten en alle andere mogelijke communicatiemiddelen, die de beschaving voortstuwen. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1828)
9. De moderne tijd geeft een valse vorm van zekerheid door de grote hoeveelheid beschikbare informatie. Waar het om gaat is echter hoe we de informatiestroom leren beheersen. (Goethe: uit Faust 1832)
10. Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.(Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859)
11. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes of Morse code, and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.  (Unidentified Boston newspaper, 1865)
12. By means of electricity the world of matter has become a great nerve vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time (1865)
13. 1872: Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.  (Pierre Pachet,Professor of Physiology at Toulouse)
14. 1873: The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.  (Sir John Eric Ericksen, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria)
15. 1875: The Telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been send. (Graham Bell)
16. 1876: This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. (Western Union internal memo)
17. 1876: Nee meneer, de Amerikanen hebben telefoons nodig, maar wij niet. Wij hebben genoeg telegrambestellers. (William Preece, hoofdingenieur British Post)
18. 1882: I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere. (Lord Byron)
19. 1895: Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society)
20. 1899: Everything that can be invented has been invented.”(Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents)
21. 1889:“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time.  Nobody will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison
22. The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.  (A president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Horace Rackham (Henry Ford's lawyer) not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903)
23. Vliegen is één van de problemen die de mens nooit zal oplossen (Simon Newcombe bekend astronoom in 1903)
24. (1905) Dat er het afgelopen jaar geen radicale verbeteringen zijn geïntroduceerd, lijkt er op te wijzen dat de automobile praktisch uitontwikkeld is.
25. The aeroplane will never fly. (Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907)
26. Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. *(Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist and future World War I commander, 1911)
27. The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous. (Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of radio, Technical World Magazine, October, 1912, page 145.)
28. The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? (David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s)
29. Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions ... Radio makes surprise impossible. *(Josephus Daniels, former US secretary of the navy, Oct. 16, 1922)
30. De radio biedt ieder lid van het electoraat de mogelijkheid zich direct te verhouden tot de kandidaten. Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis reproduceert de radio tot op zekere hoogte de aard van de Atheense democratie  waar iedere kiezer de kandidaten kon beluisteren  en beoordelen. (The New Republic 1924)
31. Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.  (Eddie Rickenbacker, 'Popular Science,' July 1924)
32. 1926: While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. [Lee De Forest]
33. 1927: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? *(H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers)
34. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.*(Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind)
35. The election of Hoover ... should result in continued prosperity for 1929. * (Roger W Babson, American financial statistician and founder of the Babson Institute, Sept. 17, 1928)
36. Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. *(Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929)
37. Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war. (British prime minister David Lloyd George, Aug. 1, 1934)
38. Democracy will be dead by 1950. (John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of The Future, 1936.)
39. In our endeavour to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a wristwatch. He sees the face and the moving hands, and even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the back. If he is ingenious enough he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. (Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld 1938)
40. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)
41. "De intuïtieve geest is een heilige gift en de rationele geest is een trouwe dienaar. We hebben een maatschappij gevormd die de dienaar eert. (Albert Einstein)
42. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
43. (Television) won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. (Darryl F Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946)
44. Het probleem met televisie is dat mensen er stil voor moeten gaan zitten met hun ogen aan het scherm geplakt. Het gemiddelde Amerikaanse gezin heeft daar geen geduld voor.
45. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.  (A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
46. Where a calculator like the ENIAC today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1½ tons. (Andrew Hamilton, "Brains that Click", Popular Mechanics 91 (3), March 1949, (pp. 162 et seq.) at p. 258.
47. I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year". (The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957)
48. 1962: We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." (Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles)

49. 1955: “Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years.” — Alex Lewyt, President of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company.

50. 1959: “Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles.  We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.” — Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General.

51. 1961: “There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television or radio service inside the United States.” — T.A.M. Craven, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner.

52. 1966: “Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.” — Time Magazine.

53. 1981: “Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.” — Marty Cooper, inventor.

54. 1995: “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.” — Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com.

55. 2005: “There’s just not that many videos I want to watch.” — Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube expressing concerns about his company’s long term viability.

56. 2006: “Everyone’s always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone.  My answer is, ‘Probably never.’” — David Pogue, The New York Times.

57. 2007: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” — Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO.

58. For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect." (Dr Ian G MacDonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek, Nov. 18, 1963)
59. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. (J. F. Kennedy 1963)
60. Man will never reach the moon. regardless of all future scientific advances. * (Dr Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion tube and a father of radio, Feb. 25, 1967)
61. De vraag is niet of machines kunnen denken, maar of mensen het doen.  *(B.F. Skinner. Bekend Amerikaans Psycholoog)
62. Short term-forecasts tend to be dull and obvious, long-term forecasts provocative and unreliable. (Nigel Calder Technopolis 1969)
63. We can close the books on infectious diseases. (Surgeon General of the United States William H. Stewart, 1969; speaking to the U.S. Congress – cited in The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria by Mark J. Plotkin and Michael Shnayerson, 2003, ISBN 0316735663.)
64. Verwacht mag worden dat rondom de eeuwwisseling vrij algemene toepassing van beeldtelefonie ook hier ter lande zal zijn gerealiseerd. (Ministerie van V&W, 1970 in Toekomstprojectie 2000)
65. But what ... is it good for? *(Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, on the microchip)
66. If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. *(Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M 'Post-It' Notepads)
67. Mensen onderschatten systematisch het tempo van de technologische ontwikkeling. Zij overschatten echter tegelijkertijd de maatschappelijke veranderingen die de nieuwe technologieën met zich mee zullen brengen.*(Nobel prijswinnaar en directeur Bell Labs: Arno Penzias)
68. So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.' *(Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.)
69. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. (Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)
70. Why do we continue with real wars when virtual conflicts are fun, more cost effective, and no one gets hurt? (Isaac Asimov)
71. Can we choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if we ourselves are scientifically illiterate? (Isaac Asimov)
72. Any Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (Arthur C Clarke)
73. Als een wetenschapper zegt dat iets mogelijk is, heeft hij vrijwel zeker gelijk. Beweert hij dat iets onmogelijk is, dan heeft hij het hoogstwaarschijnlijk mis. (Arthur C. Clarke)
74. By 2010, electronic monitoring will be normal in public spaces in all civilized countries By 2020, electronic monitoring will virtually eliminate professional criminals from society. (Arthur C. Clarke, in the futurist sept 2001)
75. 640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates, 1981) Schijnt overigens niet waar te zijn.
76. De Wet van Moore voor auto's. Dan zou je nu een Rolls-Royce kunnen kopen voor één eurocent, hij zou 100 miljoen kilometer lopen op één liter benzine en de motor zou genoeg energie leveren voor heel Nederland. En als je in miniaturisatie geïnteresseerd was, kon je er een paar miljoen in een luciferdoosje stoppen.
77. De 4 wetten van de nieuwe economie, De Wet van Moore, De Wet van Metcalf, De Wet van Den Butter, De Wet van Substitutie van Materie door Informatie.
78. The 21st century will be a time of biotech. Most people don't understand that we are entering a biological revolution. They don't see biotechnology as connected to things far beyond biology. Biotech has the potential to dramatically change electronics, computational devices via both hardware and software, and multifunctional materials. Dan Goldin, Chief NASA Administrator (at the 1999 NASDAQ Biotech Summit in Seattle, WA)"
79. In the past, shoes could stink,In the present, shoes can blink,In the future, shoes will think.
80. Nearly all of the body organs can be replaced by compact artificial organs with built in control systems. This includes the heart, kidneys, stomach and even liver. *(Dr L B Lusted, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2000, on the world of 2012)
81. No youngster today should dream of becoming a corporate vice president by the time he is  By the time he is 50 corporate bureaucracies will no longer exist. (Norman McRae in the Economist 2006)
82. By 2009, personal computer will have a whole new meaning: People will have a dozen or so computers on, in and around their bodies. These computers will monitor health; aid in navigation; and perform functions similar to cellular phones, web browsers, and pagers. – (Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, page 16)
83. I no longer worry about dying, but I do worry about dying before my computer is proud of me. (Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, page 22.)
84. Technology becomes increasingly, invisible, embedded, adaptive and anticipatory. (Ray Kurzweil)
85. By 2010 touch-sensitive robots shall make virtual reality more realistic. The ability to collect and transmit tactile data--such as the way it feels to kick a soccer ball--will add to humans' ability to experience events remotely. Planetary geologists with robotic proxies in space could feel the weight and texture of rocks on Mars, and lovers separated by miles could hold hands. (Ray Kurzweil)
86. By 2010, real-time traffic information, computerized navigation, and even automated cars will make driving easier. By 2020, automated cars will be smart and environmentally friendly. They will be part chauffer, part personal assistant, and part Web browser. (Ray Kurzweil)
87. By 2029, brain implants will so enhance people's perceptual and cognitive abilities that those who don't use them won't be able to participate in meaningful conversations with those who do.  (Ray Kurzweil )
88. Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information  *(T.S.Eliot)
89. I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. (William Gibson)
90. The Dow Jones will hit 40,000 by 2016, because of the growing number of people investing in stocks and mutual funds.*(David Elias, author and investment advisor in 2000)
91. By 2010, biomonitoring devices that resemble wristwatches will provide wearers with up-to-the minute data about their health status."
92. Tiny electronic microchips implanted in a person's forearm could transmit messages to computers that controls the heating and light systems of intelligent buildings."
93. Verdwijnen van Vreemde Talen? De komst van vertaalmachines zal het belang van het onderwijs in de vreemde talen en van menselijke tolken sterk verminderen.
94. Virtual Traveling Technology (3D) die de visuele ervaring van verschillende reisbestemmingen simuleert, zou wel eens een nieuwe industrie kunnen worden, naarmate reizen onveiliger (terrorisme) en duurder, reizigers ouder en tijd steeds schaarser wordt. Denk aan reisjes naar de grotten van Lascaux, of Altamira, de Niagara Watervallen of de St. Pieter in Rome.
95. Ict maakt de wereld steeds kleiner. Afghanistan ligt tegenwoordig om de hoek. Kunnen wij het ons dan nog veroorloven onze rijkdom vooral voor ons zelf te houden?
96. A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere. (The New York Times, January 13, 1920. The Times offered a retraction on July 17, 1969, as Apollo 11 was on its way to the moon.)
97. To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth—all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances. (Lee De Forest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1957 De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible, Lewiston Morning Tribune via Associated Press, February 25, 1957)
98. Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. (C. P. Scott, BBC History of television)
99. What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches? (The Quarterly Review, March, 1825.)
100. That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced.  (Scientific American, January 2, 1909.)
101. There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. (Albert Einstein, 1932)
102. The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. [New York Times, 1949]
103. Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax. [Lord Kelvin]
104. It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.[John von Neumann (1949)]
105. No woman in my time will be Prime Minister... [Margaret Thatcher The Sunday Telegraph, 1969]
106. There will never be a bigger plane built. [A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that holds ten people.
107.  A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. *(Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies)
108. I hope we have solved the integration problems between the human races before we face the problems of integration with robots.”(Dr J P Eckert, UNIVAC)
109. The age of the hierarchy is over. *(Corning chairman and chief executive, James R Houghton)
110. Make every decision as low as possible in the organisation. The charge of the Light Brigade was ordered by an officer who was not looking at the territory. * (Robert Townsend, former CEO, Avis)
111. We have a layer of clay that prevents anything either way - up or down. The layer is middle management. *(Ciba chief operating officer Heini Lippuner)
112. I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am, I know I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe. *(R Buckminster Fuller)
113. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. *(Walt Disney)
114. Old people are dangerous, they have no fear of the future. *(anon)
115. One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. *(anon)
116. Ideas are like rabbits - you get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. *(anon)
117. Every animal leaves traces of what they were; man alone leaves traces of what he created. *(anon)
118. There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. *(anon)
119. Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress. *(Thomas A. Edison)
120. The only difference between old and new economy business is wether they foresee technological change and seize the opportunities it offers."
121. Information is the only resource that grows when used."
122. Health kiosks at the local mall, able to measure vital signs and diagnose problems, may replace visits to the doctor in 2010."
123. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
124. The way to make a network more valuable is to link it to another network.
125. The cable and telephone network is now the nervous system of the planet, and computers are the neurons"
126. Niets is zo blijvend als verandering! of Verandering: de enige constante in ons leven. En zelfs de verandering is niet constant meer. De verandering versnelt.
127. We should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and bring it also under its reign of constant evolution."
128. In 1995 was internet en gsm alleen nog maar iets voor een voorhoede. Hoe zullen we over vijf jaar terugkijken op 2000?"
129. Every epoch is a epoch of transition.We know only one thing about the future or rather, the futures:It will not look like the present.*(Jorge Luis Borges)
130. You see things; and you say why' But I dream things, that never where,and I say 'why' not? *(George Bernard Shaw)
131. In plaats van te rammen op harde plastic toetsenborden, zullen we binnenkort onze apparaten ook kunnen bedienen via zachte elektronische stoffen. Mogelijke toepassingen voor slim textiel: tafelkleden met toetsenborden (ook voor piano?) en kleding hoezen met ingebouwde (TV) afstandsbediening.
132. In times of change, learners inherit the earth,while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. *(Eric Hoffer)
133. Aan luie mensen schijnt de vooruitgang te danken te zijn. Zij bedenken stofzuigers en andere tijdsbesparende apparaten.*(anoniem)
134. By 2050 ninety percent of the world’s 6,000 languages could go extinct."
135. Ict leidt tot een hogere levensstandaard voor ons allen. Daarom sta ik voor gelijke toegang voor allen tot elektronische diensten - zonder technische problemen."
136. De geschiedenis leert dat de vooruitgang zich niet laat remmen. Het is dus overbodig ons af te vragen of de ontwikkelingen goed of slecht zijn, wenselijk of onwenselijk.(..) Waar we ons op moeten richten is hoe in de nabije toekomst om te gaan met de veranderende wenselijkheid. *(Uit: Een geweldige tijd, Vara TV 2 nov. jl.)
137. Want bedenk...gisteren is geschiedenis, morgen is mysterie, en vandaag is een geschenk."
138. Een zakenreiziger op Schiphol. 1,5 kilo hersenen die van A naar B moeten worden vervoerd. (Eckart Wintzen over de noodzaak van breedband)
139. By 2010, the highest-paid movie star will be synthetic."
140. By 2020, we will share our planet with synthetic intelligent life forms; they may even have legal rights."
141. (Man will never reach the moon) regardless of all future scientific advances. * (Dr Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion tube and a father of radio, Feb. 25, 1967)
142. Innovatie=het omzetten van (kennis + research) in geld. (Patrick Morley ex-KPN)
143. From oceans of data, seas of information, to rivers of knowledge and drops of wisdom.
144. Genetics are part of the informationtechnologies. This is first because genetic engineering is focused on the decoding, manipulation, and eventual reprogramming of informationcodes. But also because since the 1990's biology, electronics and informatics are converging in their applications and in their conceptual approach. (Manuel Castels in 'The rise of the networksociety.)
145. Destiny is not a matter of chance -it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for -it is a thing to be achieved---William Jennings Bryan ----"
146. Sometime in the next thirty years, very quietly one day we will cease to be the brightest things on earth. (James McAlear)
147. Wie altijd met beide benen op de grond blijft staan, komt meestal niet veel verder."
148. There is no way back into the past. The choice is the future-- or nothing."
149. De moderne ict maakt het mogelijk op meerdere plaatsen tegelijk te werken en sociale relaties te onderhouden, zelfs in verschillende landen. Migranten hebben daardoor steeds meer zowel in de landen van herkomst als in hun nieuwe thuislanden economische en politieke invloed.  Deze transmigranten breken door de traditionele geopolitieke grenzen en dwingen nationale staten tot intensievere samenwerking."
150. Toekomstige conflicten zullen steeds vaker elektronische doelwitten hebben dan menselijke. Elektronische oorlogsvoering zal bestaan uit het hacken, of uit het blokkeren van de computer- en communicatiesystemen van de tegenstander, door electromagnetische schokgolven waarmee elektromotoren en andere elektronische apparaten kunnen worden ontregeld. Ook het gebruik van misleidende informatie zal worden ingezet om verkeerde besluiten uit te lokken of om de banktegoeden van de vijand in Zwitserland te plunderen."
151. De mondialisering van de economie zal bijdragen aan de wereldvrede naarmate multinationale ondernemingen, met hun bezittingen over de gehele wereld, meer te verliezen krijgen. Zelfs bloedeloze cyberoorlogen zullen voor hen niet acceptabel zijn vanwege de schade aan hun elektronische infrastructuur."
152. De echo-boom generatie geboren tussen 1970 en 1990 zal spoedig meer economische macht vergaren dan hun ouders (de baby boomers).Deze geldbeluste jongeren beginnen nu al te sparen en te beleggen op een nooit eerder vertoonde leeftijd en schaal."
153. Automated translation systems will enable most of the world's people to communicate directly with one another by about 2020. *(Sam Lehman prof. communication technology)
154. Wearable telephones will make high-tech fashion statements. Prototype jackets with hands-free mobile phones sewn into them are being sold in France and the UK. This communicative clothing will be ideal for construction workers, sports enthusiasts, and anyone else on the go."
155. The impact of computer games on children: If this were true, all those little Pacman-addicts of the eighties would by now be running around in dark rooms, taking funny pills and listening to electronic music."
156. Cubicle workers will get an new (virtual) window on the world. Broadband will merge virtual reality and teleconferencing to immerse future office workers in multiple connected environments. *(World Trends & Forecasts)
157. De techniek verandert de mens niet. Mensen gebruiken techniek vooral om dezelfde dingen te blijven doen, die ze altijd al deden. Alleen sneller, goedkoper en gemakkelijker."
158. Some students will know more about their favorite subjects than their teachers. Armed with computers and Internet access in their bedrooms, kids will spend many more hours mining information than their teachers can spare; teachers may need to learn a new role: orchestrators of learning. --education futurist Gary Marx. ---"
159. Het huis van de toekomst zal meer lijken op het huis van vroeger dan op het huis van nu. *(Stefan Marzani Philips)
160. Ict is de infrastructuur voor de producten van de geest. *(Herman Wijffels tijdens meeting met Bestuur EPN)
161. In theory the entire human race could have a simultaneous conversation, twice over, on single optical fibre as thick as a human hair *(Peter Cochrane BT)
162. Market forces alone will create the Information Super Footpath - a Highway needs planning"
163. In het jaar 2000 zullen er wereldwijd 25 miljoen mobiele telefoons zijn verkocht. (voorspelling Nokia in 1992) In werkelijkheid werden er in 2000 al meer dan 250 miljoen afgezet)"
164. But what ... is it good for? *(Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, on the microchip)
165. Arts patrons will be able to experience culture around the world virtually. But such technologies could threaten the survival of institutions dependent on attendance. New sources of revenues will be sought to support museums, concert halls, and theaters, such as licensing virtual exhibits, pay-per-view broadband performances. *(Terry Ray Hiller, Coming Changes in Public Arts)
166. De komst van vertaalmachines zal het belang van het onderwijs in de "vreemde talen" en van menselijke tolken sterk verminderen."
167. More or Less Democracy in the Info Age? New communications technology requires professional political consultants, makes microtargeting possible at the expense of majority preferences, and promises information filtering capabilities that threaten democracy. On the other hand, new infotech promises many ways to invigorate democracy."
168. Computervirussen zijn geen technisch verschijnsel, maar een sociologisch fenomeen. *(David Perry)
169. The world's fastest computer, IBM's ACSI White, may reach 16 trillion calculations per second by 2004, making it possible to transmit the entire contents of the Library of Congress in about two seconds, *(Graham T.T. Molitor.)
170. By 2020 smart beds will analyze your physical and mental status before you get up in the morning. By that time body parts will be replaced, not repaired."
171. Shame may become the punishment of choice for some crimes. In the USofA, publishing the names of drunk drivers, absentee parents, and other wrongdoers is increasingly seen as a cost-effective alternative to imprisonment
172. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley-"
173. Switch off the phone network and most of us would die. No communication, no logistics, no food! (Peter  Cochrane BT)
174. Cyber Promise, Cyber Threat ICT has already changed many lives, with more change to come: powerful human-centered computers, tele-immersion perhaps widespread in 10 years, embedded systems everywhere, and the broadband revolution. But the Net will remain insecure, with looming threats of disruption, exploitation, manipulation, destruction, and perhaps an electronic Chernobyl."
175. How many times did you have to reboot your phone this week?
176. The difference between a newspaper and a laptop. No one takes a laptop into the toilet"
177. It is time to stop bending people into technology and time to start bending technology into people. "
178. Vliegtuigen zijn leuk speelgoed, maar hebben geen militaire waarde. *(Marshall Ferdinand Foch de latere opperbevelhebber van de Franse Strijdkrachten in WO I in 1911.)
179. You put a CD into a hi-fi system and press play. You put a CD into a PC and press pray. (Peter Cochrane)
180. We have very skilled doctors who can't type, and this bridges the gap, Paul Silvester, manager at the Royal Brompton Hospital, on the potential of tablet PCs in health."
181. To predict the future is a power of the present."
182. De werkelijke waarde van technologie ligt in wat burgers, bedrijven en samenleving met technologie kunnen doen. (Erkki Liikanen, Kopenhagen november 2002)
183. All media, from the alphabet to the computer, are extensions of man that cause deep and lasting changes in him and transform his environment and society at large. *(Marshall McLuhan)"
184. Wie de toekomst als tegenwind ervaart, loopt de verkeerde kant op."
185. Siemens, i don't sell my future for shortterms profit."
186. Op computers kun je niet rekenen. (anoniem)
187. In 2010 weten waarschijnlijk alleen ouderen boven de vijftig nog wat een harde schijf is.(prof Nico Baken TU Delft)
188. Een goed idee is nooit origineel. Maar wie doet er iets mee? *(anoniem)
189. If the medium is the message, the user is the content - Marshall McLuhan, 1967"
190. First things first, but not necessarily in that order. *(Dr.Who)
191. By the year 2015 the super computer equal to our human brain will be with us. By 2025 it will be on our desks, by 2030 it will be wearing us.
192. Terwijl de wereld uitdijt, wint nabijheid aan waarde
193. Is een facebook een besmetting waar je ook weer van kunt genezen?
194. The continual advancement of technology leaves us 2 options for the next 2 decennia. Evolve into a true global civilization or go down in turmoil.
195. Voor een heer die zich naar de toekomst richt, gaat de tijd nooit te snel. Olivier B. Bommel.
196. We did not invent timetravel yet to change the past, our only opportunity is to change the future.
197. Als over tien jaar een intelligent apparaat je smeekt om hem niet uit te zetten. Wat doe jij dan?
198. What seems most certain is that the future of man — both scientific and social — will be far more exciting than the wildest dreams.
199. History does not repeat it self..But it rimes.
200. Peter Drucker. The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. it is to act with yesterday's logic.