“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.”

Raymond Williams

“Islamophobia is the new anti-Semitism.”

BBC Newsnight journalist who did a report last night on the emergence of far-Right “Identarians’ in Europe.

“You can never underestimate the effect in American public life of complete and utter incomprehensibility.”

Henry Kissinger, quoted in today’s Financial Times

“Those who predict the future we call futurists. Those who know when the future will happen we call billionaires”.

Horace Dediu (@asymco)

“Bringing a fact checker to a Trump speech is like bringing a pastry chef to a pie fight.”

Jonathan A. Neufeld

“Impartiality is a pompous word for indifference”.

G.K. Chesterton

“For the waking there is one world, and it is common — but sleepers turn aside, each into a world of his own”.

Heraclitus

Always comes to mind when I claim that we may be sleepwalking into a networked nightmare.

“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.”

Pedro Domingos in his book The Master Algorithm.

“The truth counts only when there are agreed rules of evidence. It is the absence of such common ground that best measures America’s polarisation “.

*Edward Luce, FT, today *