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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
tomorrow: not rotating on the great cosmic wheel
The modern future was born, according to one precise dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440 in which he set out to predict the blissful state of human … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Camille Flammarion, Francis Bacon, Futurology, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist, Saint Augustine, Voltaire Micromegas
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as time goes by
Is the future what it used to be? Is there in fact, a power, a destiny, a divinity of some kind that “shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will”? The opinion of the majority has always been that there … Continue reading
Promise them anything
…but give them a propadeutic scenario…. Bird’s guts, crystal balls, the stars in the heavens, tea leaves- individuals have resorted to all of these and more in an effort to foretel the future. Today, the seer’s tools are charts, statistics, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Anthony J. Wiener, Antonin Artaud, Futurology, Herman Kahn, Jean Paul Sartre, John William Waterhouse, Joseph L. Fisher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malthus, Marquis de Condorcet, Max Beckmann, Max Beckmann falling man, peter drucker, William Blake
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element of surprise
Indeed, for a historian who can establish himself in the past and not the future, the world’s development is full of surprises: in religion, in politics, in social attitudes, there are sudden, almost electrifying, shifts nad changes that would, were … Continue reading
The future: it ain’t what it used to be
Human beings, it has been said, are the only creatures that think about the future, but the individual has conceived of it in remarkably different ways.The future is a relic, an industry, a myth, a commodity. For all our scientific … Continue reading
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