To know where society will be tomorrow, focus on the turning.
You may gather data on all the latest demographic and technological trends, but if you don't know what season of history it is—spring, summer, winter, or fall—you still won't know whether to sow or reap. From Henry Ford to Henry Kaiser and from Bill Levitt to Bill Gates, great innovators possess the ability to anticipate entirely new currents in the public mood. The future is never linear, and the further ahead you need to plan, the more you need to see around the next great bend in social time.
The text above is copied verbatim from William Strauss and Neil Howe's Lifecourse site; the full 26-page document from which this text is copied can be found and downloaded here.
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