CT6/774, p. 411
Shatterpoint (2004)
“First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.”
Verin Mathwin
(15 October 1994)
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Context: Neither the great political or financial powers of the world nor the population in general realize that the engineering-chemical-electronic revolution now makes it possible to produce many more technical devices with ever less material. We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be “you or me,” so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete. This has never been done before. Only twelve years ago technology reached the point where this could be done. Since then it has made it ever so much easier to do.
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