Some quotable quotes from the May 12-14 San Francisco PLANETWORK Conference
on Information Technology and Global Ecology
“The body has full employment.”
Elizabet Sahtouris, Evolution Biologist
“There are
200,000 new users
2 million new web pages
4,442 new web sites
196,000 new connecting devices
being added to the internet every 24 hours!”
Jan Hauser, Sun MicroSystems
“Of the 10 most polluted cities in the world, 7 are in China.”
Sheri Liao, Founder of Global Village Beijing
“97% of our forests have been destroyed, and of the 3% we have left only 1%
is protected.”
Julia Butterfly Hill
“Natural species are bigger ideas than most of our ideas, so we are losing
big ideas and technologies every time we lose a specie.”
“We need to train technology to be a good citizen.”
Kevin Kelly, Wired
“Don’t think you can’t do it because you don't have enough time or enough
knowledge or enough anything...ask, what can I do with what I have.”
Twyla Wilson, Director of Strategic Alliances for marchFirst (formerly USWEB)
“Things are far too bad
and it’s far too late
to have any sense of pessimism.”
Dee Hawk, as quoted by Jan Hauser
