To help folks navigate this new world, Moore provided some advice just as relevant to education as it is to business. In short, a questing mind capable and willing to extend beyond the obvious is the requisite tool for the 21st century. Your degree will mark a point of progress in the age of imagination, but do not start with the assumption that the degree will be an end, a union card, or an entitlement. Remember, life is still a journey without a road map. The future is here, and it is ahead of us.
Time is compressed as it is in dog years.
You will flourish in a future that is bigger, better, faster, and more complex than ever imagined by the class of 1900. You've chosen well by coming to UC Santa Cruz. We'll open new universes for you, literally. I challenge you to use this time like no other time in your life. Your future has begun.