1. By enabling us to make productive use of particular raw materials, technology determines what constitutes a physical resource.2. Technology determines our supply of existing physical resources by determining both the efficiency with which we use resources and our ability to find, obtain, distribute, and store them.3. The rate at which a society's technology advances is determined by the relative level of its ability to process information.4. By providing us with new products and processes that change the way in which we live, technology determines what constitutes a need, and hence the nature of consumer demand.5. Technology determines the level of consumer demand by determining the price at which goods can be sold.6. The immediate economic potential for an individual, an industry, or a society can be explained by examining the technology gap, the best practices possible with current knowledge, and the practices in actual use. -Paul Z. Pilzer
... Caroll Michels, Tad Crawford, Paul Z. Pilzer... in the next life-- W. Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, John Biggers, Juliet Thompson, Kahlil Gibran, Dr. David Ruhe (again) ...
"If I had my way, I would replace commercial galleries with a system in which artists exhibited their work in their studios and sold it directly to the public. But such a system could work only if artists acquired enough self-confidence not to need gallery validations, and if the public, likewise, had the self-confidence necessary to buy work without gallery validation." -Caroll Michels