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PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:38 pm    Post subject: The Future is Then Reply with quote
Does the demise of "futurology" signal an advance in understanding amidst more complicated times, or a decline? --A decline in "civilization."

In market terms the farther out a vision is projected the closer it is to disintegration and return of the "now." Taking it day-by-day (not merely by definition) invites volitility before a new trend takes hold.

The Economist has gotten it backwards:

http://economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10230338


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We can see now that the golden age of blockbuster futurology in the 1960s and 1970s was caused, not by the onset of profound technological and social change (as its champions claimed), but by the absence of it.

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