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The Future Mundane - Core77
The future should look like the future.
It is often said that most futurists are really predicting the present. It turns out that the present is very hard to see. First the present is obscured by the noise of 8 billion lives looking for attention, and it is overwhelmed by the flashy glitter of the new. Mostly the now is obscured by our deep assumptions and prejudices which makes it very ... See more
Kevin Kelly • How to Future
“the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” Aspects of our future vision may already exist in the form of new projects, initiatives, practices, policies, technologies/innovations or ideas about or concepts for any of these.
Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
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.)
Amber Case • No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real
Design is the bridge that gets us from where we are to where we should be. It is future-making.