#macrotweet: ilusiones sobre el control del futuro
The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control future. Daniel Kahneman ‘Thinking fast and slow’
The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control future. Daniel Kahneman ‘Thinking fast and slow’
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. Daniel Kahneman ‘Thinking fast and slow’
We must not allow technological change to be driven by a philosophy in which people aren’t held to be special. Jaron Lanier ‘Who owns the future’
No amount of cost lowering can foster economic dignity when it also means that there are fewer jobs. Jaron Lanier ‘Who owns the future?’
People are treated as small elements in a bigger information machine, when in fact people are the only sources or destinations of information, or indeed of any meaning to the machine at all. Jaron Lanier ‘Who owns the future?’
The measure of the stock market’s success is not whether stocks prices are rising. It’s whether stocks prices are right. James Surowiecki ‘The wisdom of crowds’
Even when its virtues may seem self-evident, an idea needs a champion in order to be adopted by the group as a whole. James Surowiecki ‘The wisdom of crowds’
Si un problema no tiene solución, puede que no sea un problema sino un hecho. No para ser resuelto sino para arreglárselas con él. Shimon Peres Citado por Rafael Martínez Alonso en ‘El manual del estratega’
el principal soporte físico de la economía de la información, el silicio, es el segundo elemento más abundante del planeta. El principal soporte no físico, la creatividad, es ilimitada. Rafael Martínez Alonso ‘El manual del estratega’
Táctica es saber qué hay que hacer cuando hay algo que hacer; y estrategia es saber qué hay que hacer cuando no hay nada que hacer. Savielly Tartakower – Ajedrecista Citado por Rafael Martínez Alonso en ‘El manual del estratega’