Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'
タグ: powerful, progress, thinking, time

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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
タグ: situation, voting, believe, people
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
タグ: thoughts, good, science, love
Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.
タグ: come, he, apple, me
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
タグ: best-way, way, future, wisdom, best
In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
タグ: world, business, you, relationship
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