
Ep 16: Ch 9, Part 1: "Optimism"
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The Future Is Not Going to Be a Futurism
People in 19 hundred did not consider the internet or nuclear power. Unlikely, they did not conceive of them at all. We do not even have the tools to properly imagine what the future will be like. There is actually a profession of sorts that has become our ascendant recently, the futurist. People start calling themselves futurists, and then they get employed by businesses and educational institutions tot predict trends. But the future is going to be about knowledge not yet created. It's not going to be wildly guessed by a futurist - if it was, then the futurism wouldn't be a Futurist. Trying to know the unknowable leads inexorably to
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