THE IMAGE AS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Kenneth Boulding: "The IMAGE, the sum of what we think we know and what makes us behave the way we do"
 
From the moment of birth, if not before, there is a constant stream of messages entering the organism from the senses. As the child grows they gradually become distinguished into people and objects. He begins to perceive himself as an object in the midst of a world of objects. The conscious image has begun. Every time a message reaches him his image is likely to be changed in some degree by it, and as his image is changed his behavior patterns will be changed likewise.
 
Everything we call "the past" is, literally, nothing but present memories. Likewise, everything we call "the future" is nothing but present memories inverted, or rearranged, to form a prediction or expectation.
Thierry Gaudin: "Measurement of time is a paradox. How can you measure something that will never be the same again? "At the beginning was rhythm" said Goethe."
  With the Future Behind Them
 
Steve Jobs: "Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
  Steve Jobs - Stanford's Commencement Speech
  Randy Pausch inspirational speech at Carnegie Mellon University
  Sir Ken Robinson - Creativity Expert
  Theo Jansen - Kinetic Sculptur
  Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
  Did u know 2.0
 
Ethnotechnology is the study of technology-society relations: on one side, society generates technology through the innovation process; on the other side, society is transformed by technology, in ways that were not anticipated.
We Shape our Tools, and thereafter our Tools Shape Us
Marshall McLuhan, echoing Marx