“With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?” PeopleHelpingTogetherPastSocialCommunityImagineBuiltTiesInteractionFamiliarityFadedFingertipsSocial Interaction Author:Dean Ornish
“It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.” FactsUseSocialTechnologyImagineGuidesRationalDesirableSocial LifeUse Of Technology Author:Carrie Snow
“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.” ThinkingDoeReasonSeemsFallForceSocialNumbersStruggleImagineImpossibleFindingsRelationCirclesReason WhyContractsPerpetualFall BackSocial ContractAbsolutismPerpetual Motion Book:General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
“The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.” StillsSocialImagineImpossibleObjectsProductsInnovationEverydayDumbConsumersDigitalPaceAstonishingSocial NetworkSmartphonesEveryday Objects Author:Andy Hobsbawm
“Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.” PeopleNeedsIdeasMightAbleSocialChallengesCreativityImagineRiskDesignWillingDisciplineBrilliantPersistenceDreamerInnovatorsBrilliant IdeasDisagreeablePreconceptions Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.” PeopleWorldHelpingSocialMillionsImagineFashionStudentsAround The WorldProgrammingOnlineProfessorsEducateExpandingSocial NetworkMit Author:Anant Agarwal
“I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.” I CanMightSocialDifficultStruggleImagineEasierPrejudiceAddListsAutismStressful Author:Liane Holliday Willey
“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.” MenFeelsBelieveDifferentBodyPoliticalSocialBrainImagineExampleHabitCapacityIdeologyMannersPolitical SystemsTuningJaguars Author:Rodolfo Llinas
“To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.” PeopleKnowsWayPoliticalSocialSecretEnvironmentImagineReasoningConspiracyPolitical LifeSecret SocietyPolitical Environment Author:Umberto Eco
“I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's responsibility to be engaged with the culture. And when the culture is going through turmoil, I think an artist can't ignore that. I don't feel that every artist has to be politically engaged, but I can't imagine that you can be an active participant of this culture and not in some way reflect that in the work you are creating.” ThinkingWayFeelsI CanFeelingsLightArtistCultureSocialResponsibilityImagineCreatingAreasShiningActiveEngagedImagine ThatSocial ResponsibilityTurmoilParticipantsPersonal Feelings Author:Lynn Nottage
“South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.” CountryCertainOpportunitySocialSexCommunityImagineWorstActivitySouthDiscriminationEmploymentDisgustingSevereKoreaSouth KoreaSex Discrimination Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingSocialStuffImagineSticksPhonesMeaningfulBunchCellsPlatformsCell Phone Author:Biz Stone
“I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: "Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience."” LooksI CanIdeasWarOrderTurnsSocialImagineSubjectsPositionHusbandConscienceAdministrationNo IdeaExecutivesImagine ThatTurn OffVery PopularExecutive OrdersInternment Author:William A. Rusher
“What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.” GovernmentSocialTermJusticeFantasyHellImagineFoolDrugSocial JusticeInspiredDareMeaningfulIncomeBureaucratsThug Author:Ted Nugent
“Just imagine in 20 years, when candidates will have grown up with social media their entire lives. We're going to have a president where we have - where someone could go through their timeline, or someone could go through their Snapchat, or someone will find - a future president will have sent a d### pic.” YearsSocialPresidentImagineMediaSocial MediaCandidatesTimelinesSnapchat Author:Brad Williams
“I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.” IfsWorldWayPersonsWould BeNextFunSocialGoalCreativeImagineTalentMediaFindingsSocial MediaFocusedCleverAdsEngagingBetter PlacePouringMillenniumBanality Author:Scott D. Anthony