We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.

My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new businesses and if you do that right, the cost savings will come.

My driving style is alert. As a forecaster, I can't help but think about who else is on the road and how little attention they are paying to their driving.

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.