JONATHAN TALBOT:
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Can we face our technological future without dreams? I think not. But
the old ideals will no longer serve.
At present our national consciousness wanders in a no-man's land. Guided
by outdated traditions perpetuated by our own wishful thinking, we find
ourselves overwhelmed by the complex technology which surrounds us. The
pastoral dream we have inherited can no longer shelter us in a world where
the unwelcome predictions of Malthus, Huxley, and Orwell threaten to become
real.
The arts will continue to provide us with new insights into the human
condition. As they have in the past, these insights will empower us to
meet the challenges of the future. In order for this to happen we must
bring together high-tech reality and pastoral ideal and form a new foundation
for our aspirations. We must find new paths through the increasingly complex
mazes which are the results of advancing technology. We must imagine new
freedoms in response to new constraints and new hopes in response to new
fears. We must weave the threads of the past into new patterns for the
fabric of the future. We must create new dreams.
--Jonathan Talbot, 1996
Revised 2004.
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