The benefits of the computer will not be seen if we simply use them - as we are doing - to save us from the inefficiency of our current way of doing things. The advantage of the computer is that it allows us to develop totally different systems of organization. Just as the motor car allowed the development of motor car based cities like Los Angeles, so the computer allows the development of the computer based organisation. Of course we have to ensure that the result is more human rather than less human.
© Edward de Bono, 1979. "Future Positive"
Published by Maurice Temple Smith 1979.