Through all of human history from its earliest beginnings until now, there have been only three basic stages of economic life: (1) hunting-and-gathering societies; (2) agricultural societies; and (3) industrial societies. Now, looming over
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“Time is depicted in hymns in the Atharva Veda as perpetually replenishing itself from a full vessel which, in spite of all efforts, can never be emptied. Since time transcends time, it is without beginning or end, without limit; and in that sense it is like God. ‘Time am I, world-destroying,’ says Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, stressing ‘I am imperishable Time’.”
― Why I am a Hindu
― Why I am a Hindu
“The future is disorder. A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It is the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.” —Tom Stoppard,”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“The new society, and therefore the new culture, will be defined at one end by what machines can do better than people, by automation that will do away with increasing numbers of low-skill tasks, and at the other by the power that information technology gives to people who actually have the talent to take advantage of it. Such a society will have greater tensions between a small class, who might be termed the information aristocracy, and a growing underclass, who might be termed the information poor.”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“Apple’s mobile ecosystem has 60% of smartphone share in the United States and 80% share among teenagers, and over two-thirds of mobile gaming revenues globally.”
― The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
― The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
“Gold itself is an asset for the holder and a liability for nobody else; it represents the accumulated energy that was used to extract it from the earth and refine it into usable form, for which it has many applications.”
― Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
― Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
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