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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Futurological Brickbats

Futurology is in the business of investing the vicissitudes of ongoing technodevelopmental social struggle with the aura of either novelty or of nostalgia, and then peddling these evocations of mood as "truths" or "trends." Never once has a futurologist made a contribution to actual sense by means of this odd operation.

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