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by bmitc 922 days ago
There are so many systems thinkers from that time that basically understood how the world works and how it could or should work that basically no one today knows of or considers. It's a shame.

This demo us one of the most mindblowing things I've seen and especially so if you consider its date of arrival. I truly think the audience didn't really understand it.

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Who's to say there aren't just as many such people know but we still have trouble recognizing them until well after the fact.
My point was more that these people wrote about things that predicted where we were headed but no one listened to them then, and no one listens to them now.