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the future: misleading desires for permanence
The future is a relic, and industry and a myth. For all our scientific prognostications, do we know any more about it than the average Zoroastrian? …After Louis Sebastien Mercier passed into the dustbin of history, a new breed of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Auguste Comte, John Gast painter, Jules Verne, LOuis Sebastien Mercier L'an 2440, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist
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future: like beads on an infinite string
The modern future was born, according to one dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440… …This linear conception of the time is another essential ingredient of the modern … Continue reading
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