Hilarious Goals: The Joke’s on Them
March 25th, 2008 | by Mark Fusco |There’s a good deal of attention being paid to a 1995 Newsweek article by Clifford Stoll these days.
From the article,
Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.
Baloney.
Of course with these thoughts, Stoll soon became the punchline of the then hilarious goals of visionaries who were bold enough to swim upstream through the prevailing laughter and ridicule of inadequate knowledge, unproven experience and unavailable technology of the day, to completely change the tide of our experiences.
Want to achieve hilarious goals? Stop measuring your vision against the known of today and the proven of yesterday. Pursue your passion and do it. Finally, understand that while they may laugh at you today, the joke will be on them tomorrow.