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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. (Arthur C. Clarke).

1°) Who is the author? Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is a British science fiction writer whom you are surely familiar with through one of his most famous works, namely 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scientist and inventor, he also worked on technological concepts, in particular geostationary communication satellites, the concept of which he originated. 2°) Context of the quote From a temporal point of view, he is said to have made this quote for the first time in 1969 in a newspaper interview in relation to 2001: A Space Odyssey. He repeated it in another interview a few...

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics (Robert Solow)

In 1987, Nobel Prize-winning American economist Robert Solow famously said: “ You can see the computer age everywhere, except in productivity statistics. This observation, known as...

[Quote] Markets are conversations

"Markets are conversations" That's the first these of the cluetrain manifesto. No matter the documents dates from 1999, it's been used to trigger the earliest...