what's the point of being a futurist if your predictions are wrong all the timehttps://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/966621461866622976 …
The point isn't to predict the future. It's to enlarge your imagination. At least, that's what every futurist I've met has told me. Having played futurist games like "The Thing from the Future", I totally buy it - it's incredibly valuable.
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I'm mostly being snarky about a thinker I dislike - Land's bread and butter is a particular type of dogmatic insistence about trajectories based on race/IQ
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have you read land from before he went hard-right, I’m not gonna say he was “good” but he was at least “interesting”
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I personally prefer my futurism in the form of science fiction--artists tend to have keener insights and a better grasp of the implications. Isaac Asimov -> Phillip K. Dick ->
@hannu (The best sci-fi is narrative philosophy in the spirit of Plato!) -
The context of speculative fiction also serves as a disclaimer--it does not pretend to be predictive, merely speculative.
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