While everything changes something, nothing changes everything. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015For an outcome to be possible it is not enough to think it would be profitable. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015For an outcome to be plausible it is not enough to think it is logically possible. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015There is more going on now shaping what will happen next than anyone can know. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Extrapolation always begins as a parochialism and usually ends as an evangelism. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Scenarios never provide good analysis and usually amount to bad fiction. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Every "trend" is a pitch or a prescription pretending to be a description. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Wishing is not thinking. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Bets are not arguments. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Technological determinism doesn't make tools agents but denies agency to all but those who own and control most tools. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Progress is never a technological but always a political accomplishment. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015Instrumental power amplifies capacities of the status quo, political power expands potentials for future flourishing. #FuturologicalFollies
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 25, 2015
> Wishing is not thinking.
ReplyDeleteGatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that
year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s
no matter -— tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms
farther. . . . And then one fine morning --