Quote by William Gibson (about Progress, Globalization)

Quote by William Gibson (about Progress, Globalization)

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

William Gibson - December 2003

Progress Globalization

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In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

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Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

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