This essay examines the history of futurism and the appeal and difficulty of predicting the future. It considers the difference between the Cold War-era futurism of making predictions and the more contemporary style of shaping and building the future piece by piece.
Keywords:
Huntington Library,
RAND,
Alvin Toffler,
The Long Now,
Anthropocene,
Y2K,
Ossip Flechtheim,
Moore’s Law,
Ray Kurzweil,
singularity
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