“The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical”

— Patrick Dixon , book Futurewise

Futurewise (1998)

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British futurist 1957

Махназ Афхами (1941)

“Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

I got my degree through E-mail http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0616/5912084a.html, Forbes (June 16, 1997)
1990s and later

“Most tribal religions make no pretense as to their universality.”

Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) American writer

Source: God Is Red (1973), p. 210

“The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Epilogue, p. 235 http://books.google.com/books?id=jHuYuLugqBAC&q=%22The+ethic+of+Reverence+for+Life+is+the+ethic+of+Love+widened+into+universality%22&pg=PA235#v=onepage
Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)

“The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 70

“Kantian ethics is fundamentally committed to a radical critique of human social life, especially of social life in its “civilized” form. This critical tendency is not a mere ancillary feature or contingent concomitant of Kantian ethics. It conditions the fundamental conception of Kantian ethical theory.”

Allen W. Wood (1942) academic

Kantian Ethics (2008)

“The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.”

Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer

“Joseph Brodsky, writing about Mandelstam, called lyricism the ethics of language. Larkin's wit is the ethics of his poetry. It brings his distress under our control. It makes his personal unhappiness our universal exultation. Armed with his wit, he faces the worst on our behalf, and brings it to order.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

'On Larkin's Wit'
Essays and reviews, From the Land of Shadows (1982)

“There is no moral authority for government other than to enforce the Universal Ethic.”

Fred E. Foldvary (1946) American economist

Source: The Soul of Liberty (1980), p. 103

“Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways”

Franz Boas (1858–1942) German-American anthropologist

Boas (1928) in foreword to Margaret Mead (1928) Coming of Age in Samoa.

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