Thornton May (@ThorntonMay1) profile picture

Futurist, Educator, Author

Joined March 2020
In 2006 an economist calculated that the consumer options available to citizens of modern economies exceeded those of preindustrial societies roughly by a factor of 100 million.
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19th hole is my favorite
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This ranking shows the 10-year added earnings and return on investment of 37 college degrees, with engineering degrees coming out on top in added earnings, while some cheaper programs have a higher return on investment. visualcapitalist.com/ranked-… via @visualcap
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“Even before the emergence of public opinion research, street crowds in ancient Rome, revolutionary France, Reformation England demonstrated that the ultimate mandate for leaders &ideas comes from the public.” Can the World be Wrong?:Where Global Public Opinion Says We're Headed
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“The human race lives by the stories we tell ourselves about our identity and our purposes,” — Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime by David Pryce-Jones
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Tech empires are the prophets of the modern day, and like the ancient oracles and medieval astrologers that preceded them, they're not in it for the common good—they're in it for power Carissa Velez
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“Hawthorne anticipated only further convulsions, and he cursed all those who blessed the fighting: “I sympathize with nobody and approve of nothing.”” — Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs
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I think the consumer matters!
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“practices and belief structures that provided hope for the future.” — Modernity and the Great Depression: The Transformation of American Society, 1930-1941 (CultureAmerica) by Kenneth J. Bindas
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“focus on cognitive deliberative processes at the individual level” — Bargaining with the Machine: Technology, Surveillence, and the Social Contract by Robert M. Pallitto
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