Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white OCR: insensitivity, crashing world markets, paranoid militias, AIDS, resource depletion, hopeless youth, and many, many other indicators of societal health all suggest crisis. Is it so naïve or even childish to suggest that these may not be signs of doom at all, but only look that way? Couldn't our inability to see our way out of what feels like such a mess be a problem of perception, and not design? We might finally be ready, or simply desperate enough, to adopt a paradigm that admits the possibility of something other than decline, decay, and death. If it takes the open-mindedness of youth to develop such a world view, then so be it. Those of us intent on securing an adaptive strategy for the coming millenium need look no further than our own children for reassuring answers to the
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