We have achieved this ability through the most common, the most powerful, and the most consistently underestimated force in our lives today—technology. But unlike the outdated economist, the alchemist of today recognizes that technology controls both the definition and the supply of physical resources. In fact, for the past few decades, it has been the backlog of unimplemented technological advances, rather than unused physical resources, that has been the determinant of real growth.
A boy this time. I was unimpressed. Listen to me! He barely speaks English. Go to Wharton next year. Study hard. Figure out how you can make your million bucks and how we can stay in business to make jobs for the Tonys of this world. My father was a religious man.
He firmly believed in a true and just God who had a reason for everything. His philosophy was perhaps best summed up in the Kaddish, the Hebrew prayer for the dead—the prayer that, as the son of a religious Jew, I recited every morning for a year following his death in The Kaddish is recited in Aramaic, the spoken language of the Jewish people in ancient times; it was originally written in Aramaic so that every member of the community would understand it.
Yet even more significant than the fact that the Hebrew prayer for the dead is not recited in Hebrew is the fact that this prayer for the dead contains no mention whatsoever of death.
Rather, in the midst of sorrow the Kaddish affirms our belief in the meaningfulness of life itself and our faith in a just and true God…even if He moves in what may seem to us to be mysterious ways. Even while he was dying of cancer in , he never wavered for a moment in his belief that God was just and that human suffering was part of a divine plan that we did not yet understand. He firmly believed, as Albert Einstein once said, that God does not play dice with the universe.
To a man like my father, it was inconceivable that God would allow people to multiply in the billions and yet deny them the ability to feed and shelter themselves.
Yet, like a loving father, God would not simply hand over to his children everything they needed. Rather, He would give them the necessary tools and allow them to discover how to use the tools to take care of themselves. I began my studies at Wharton Graduate Business School in with this belief: that human suffering and social injustice reflected nothing more than our failure to use the tools that God had given us. I remember my shock upon learning in my first class that the entire field of economics is based on the concept of scarcity—that is, that there is a finite amount of resources in the world—and that the best we can hope for is to figure out a better way of dividing them.
At Wharton, it seemed to me that the science of economics had advanced only to where the science of medicine was at the beginning of the 19th century. Scott Harr. Full Online - by Martha Webb. Tyler Miller. Karpman M. Bruce Goldstein.
PsykTrek 3. Nih Full Download - by Rh Value Publishing. Harris Jr. Dunbar Moodie. Paul Getty. Dan Rothwell. T Geach. Proctor II Ronald B. Robert Giller. To put it simply, we live today in a world of effectively unlimited resources—a world of unlimited wealth. In short, we live in what one might call a new Alchemic world. The ancient alchemists sought to discover the secret of turning base metals into gold; they tried to create great value where little existed before.
But an analysis of their writings shows that they were on a spiritual as well as a monetary quest. Consider this: if the ancient alchemists had succeeded in fabricating gold, gold would have become worthless and their efforts would have been for naught.
Yet, through their attempts to make gold, they laid the foundation for modern science, which today has accomplished exactly what the alchemists hoped to achieve: the ability to create great value where little existed before.
We have achieved this ability through the most common, the most powerful, and the most consistently underestimated force in our lives today—technology. But unlike the outdated economist, the alchemist of today recognizes that technology controls both the definition and the supply of physical resources.
In fact, for the past few decades, it has been the backlog of unimplemented technological advances, rather than unused physical resources, that has been the determinant of real growth. A boy this time. I was unimpressed. Listen to me! He barely speaks English. Go to Wharton next year.
Study hard. Figure out how you can make your million bucks and how we can stay in business to make jobs for the Tonys of this world.
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