The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.