Future Consciousness

Some thoughts from Howard Gardner:

Five Minds for the Future

[T]he world of the future--with its ubiquitous search engines, robots, and other computational devices--will demand capacities that until now have been mere options. To meet this new world on its own terms, we should begin to cultivate these capacities now. (2)

In the future, we need a less ritualistic, more deeply internalized form of discipline. (41)

Perhaps, as educator Vartan Gregorian has suggested, we need a specialization in becoming a generalist. Such a specialization would target promising candidates and devote resources toward the enhancement of synthesizing capacities. (75)

Corporate visionary John Seely Brown has quipped that, in the world of tomorrow, people will say, "I create; therefore I am." (77)

If one wishes to raise individuals who are respectful of differences across groups, a special burden is accordingly placed on education in the social sciences, the human sciences, the arts and literature. (114)

I would like to live in a world characterized by "good work": work that is excellent, ethical, and engaging. (127)

[A]nyone who aims to cultivate these minds must have a concept of what it means to be successful and what it means to fail. (164)