roundtable: Newt Shootin' the Curl of Third Wave

roundtable: Newt Shootin' the Curl of Third Wave

Newt Shootin' the Curl of Third Wave

Fred G Athearn (fga@world.std.com)
Mon, 30 Jan 1995 09:07:35 -0500 

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 09:07:35 -0500
From: fga@world.std.com (Fred G Athearn)
Message-Id: <199501301407.AA07558@world.std.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Newt Shootin' the Curl of Third Wave


     For those of us who were not able to do the "Democracy in
Virtual America" thing at the Grand Ballroom of the Mayflower
Hotel a while back, or hear Newt Gingrich's  talk, "From
Virtuality to Reality" this is how it started:

Fred G Athearn
<fga@world.std.com>


> If you think about the notion that the great challenge to our
> lifetime is first to imagine a future that is worth spending
> our lives getting to, and then, because of the technologies
> and the capabilities we have today, to get up to sort of a
> virtual state, although that's done in terms of actual levels
> of sophistication, all that's done in your mind.
>
> Most studies of leadership argue that leaders actually are
> acting out past decisions.  The problem when you get certainty
> with great leaders is that they have already thoroughly
> envisioned the achievement, and now it's just a matter of
> implementation.  And so it's very different.  And so in a
> sense, virtuality at the mental level is something I think you
> find in most leadership over historical periods.
>
> But in addition, the thing I want t talk about today and that
> I find fascinating is that we are not in a new place; it is
> just becoming harder and harder and harder to avoid the place
> where we are.

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