Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.