"Everything must change so that nothing will change" unacknowledged impossible goal when tech, economy change fast

Also see TLT-SWG postings "Reassurance or Reality? Hard choice when tech & economy change fast"

and “Necessity...mother of self-deception”

Quote in title of this posting is from Cosi Fan Tutti: An Aurelio Zen Mystery, Michael Dibdin, Vintage (June 30, 1998) ISBN-10: 0679779116 ISBN-13: 978-0679779117, p. 133  




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Photo of "Staatspräsident von Pakistan in München" [president of Pakistan in Munich - for opera Cosi fan tutte], 22 January 1961, Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), B 145 Bild-F009533-0028,  Author Steiner, Egon
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