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Guest voices: A Radical Backup Society
While we shore up the details of our (hopeful) location, here’s a short essay written for Fullsteam by Dr. David Frauenfelder. David muses on a wide range of topics — including comparative mythology, storytelling, food, theology, and education — at his blog, Breakfast with Pandora.
IF: Unless you are from the future, you have no idea what the future holds. (2009)
Present-mindedness, people. Present-mindedness.
The whole idea of the IF series is to celebrate the folly of past predictions of the future. And what of our current predictions? Who of the modern era’s so-called “Futurists” give us any comfort or insight to today’s mysteries? When’s the last time a Futurist predicted anything other than the perverse pervasiveness [...]
