Nassim Taleb: “Most of the technologies that are now 25 years old or more will be around; almost all of the younger ones “providing efficiencies” will be gone, either supplanted by competing ones or progressively replaced by the more robust archaic ones. So the car, the plane, the bicycle, the voice-only telephone, the espresso machine and, luckily, the wall-to-wall bookshelf will still be with us.”

Douglas Coupland: “The middle class is over. It’s not coming back. Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day?”

and Leonard Cohen: