Visualization has many meanings.
Think about how it us used in business relative to this Virtual Reality in Geosciences Conference '97
Pharaphrasing from the book First Things First by Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill:
- The power of vision is remarkable.
- Teams and organizations with a sense of vision consistently out perform those without a direction.
- Vision is the highest manifestation of creative imagination and the primary motivation of human action.
- (Vision) is the ability to see beyond our present reality, to create, to invent what does not yet exist, to become what we are not yet.
- (Vision) gives us the capacity to live out of our imaginations instead of our memory.
- Vision clarifies purpose, gives direction, empowers us to perform beyond our resources.
- (Vision) is the energy that makes life an adventure.
- (Vision) is the deep burning yes that empowers us to say no peacefully, competently, smilingly to less important things in our lives.
- This passion of vision can empower us literally to transcend fear, death, discouragement, and many other of the things that keep us from accomplishment and contribution.
- Consider Ghandi. As he began to see the injustices of the Indian peole he caught a vision of how the nation could be redeemed. He said: "I am convinced I have not done anything anyone else could not do if they would get deeply immersed in some vision, some purpose, that transcends self. At the end of life to shape it into words."
This conference has been about shaping geoscience worlds into
Virtual Environments . . . the process is just beginning . . .