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Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
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Long time horizons aren’t just psychological. They’re cultural. Modern society suffers from temporal exhaustion. Or as, sociologist Elise Boulding once said: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future.”
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Aaron Z. Lewisaaronzlewis.comSixian and added
Sociologist Elise Boulding calls this ‘temporal exhaustion’, arguing that ‘if one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
in a 1978 paper, sociologist Elise Boulding argued that society was suffering from a type of “temporal exhaustion in which...one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.” And, little time left to reflect upon and understand the past.
Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
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