“The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.” CenturyFashionPossibilityEconomicsStructureCloudsGenderDiverseLaboratoryDizzy Author:Jil Sander
“In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.” PlayRealityAgeTodayTurnsChanceFourCenturyPossibilityOrdinaryAcceptedReachingCapitalistOddsNobilityOrdinary LifeKinderLikelihoodPinnacleAristocraticSociety TodayBeing Accepted Author:Alain de Botton
“Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.” WantHumansKindMayTwoRealNextGrowthTechnologyCenturyPossibilityCapableIntellectualCommitmentWake UpCrisisEnvironmentalPopulationCommunicateGapsFearfulWant UEmergingExpertiseCopingIngenuityScience And TechnologyMisplacedPopulation GrowthReadershipWake Up CallBlithe Author:Michael Ignatieff
“We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.” MindMayOpportunityGreaterCenturyPossibilityReturnBearsTwentieth CenturyRegimentation Author:Margaret Mead
“The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.” CreativeCenturyPossibilityCamerasFantasticPens21st CenturyCreative Life Author:Carlos Fuentes
“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.” FirstsHumansKindMeanEndsWishImaginationHuman BeingsIssuesCenturyPossibilityProduceBehaviorTwentiesDetermineEducationalHuman BehaviorControversialModifyingControversial IssuesEnds And Means Author:John Goodlad
“... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.” LittlesAgeNaturalCenturyPossibilityPeriodsWarmDecadesIceMedieval19th CenturyReboundIce Age Author:Steven F. Hayward