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It’s a wet day in late February 2059, and I’m looking out at the last withering blooms of the daffodils on our Scottish riverbank. I have just seen the biggest spring salmon—20 kilos at least, and no longer rare, jump in mid-stream. The light that filters on to the wooden desk that I made myself in craft class, is radiating through translucent energy-saving roof tiles designed to capture and convert thermal energy from the sun. A log fire is burning in the stove. I can afford the carbon offset.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005)
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Donkin, R. (2010). The Day Work Ended. In: The Future of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274198_13
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