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Affective Foresight
Alex Steffen writes in his newsletter The Snap Forward:
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
our ability to contemplate how we will be in the future, may also be our greatest source of anguish.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
The vibes are off, but they’re off fundamentally because they focus only on feelings and emotional connections that have already existed. They don’t provide or imagine pathways to new futures; they allow only for an understanding of what feels good or bad based on experiences that have already happened, things that have already been seen.
Alex Vuocolo • Nameless Feeling — Real Life
there are plenty of other people—usually outside universities—happy to speculate and invent, but often without the depth of knowledge needed to do this well, or in overly generic ‘futures’ fields that sacrifice depth for breadth. As a result, the analysts and the dreamers have lived in separate worlds, and we lack even a name for people who
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