Peter Kruse, Google's Think Quarterly, "Soft Values, Hard Facts" (March 2011) Think Quarterly http://www.thinkwithgoogle.co.uk/quarterly/data/peter-kruse-next-practice.html
“Critical thinking is the indispensable skill for smart living in modern society, and skepticism is the essential posture for the fully awake twenty-first-century human being.”
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1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
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