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Confronting Impossible Futures
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly
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What’s needed, I believe, is a new approach to forecasting the future that sits between the unsustainable techno-utopianism popular with Silicon Valley, and the dystopian imagery favored by pop culture. (Which is uninspiring, and only warns us what to avoid, not what to strive for.)
from No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real by Amber Case
Alara Orhon Ozseker added
- to be helpful futuring, your imagination should be disciplined.
Ideally your imagined future would have a history. Whatever happens has to happen one-step at a time. So for every new technology or cultural innovation there needs to be versions that are economically viable one step at a time.
the game for the futurist is to try and imagine what led to... See morefrom How to Future by Kevin Kelly
Keely Adler added