Tag Archives: Camille Flammarion

tomorrow: not rotating on the great cosmic wheel

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Dave

The modern future was born, according to one precise dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440 in which he set out to predict the blissful state of human … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Camille Flammarion, Francis Bacon, Futurology, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist, Saint Augustine, Voltaire Micromegas | Leave a comment

the future is not what it was

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Dave

…Our notions of the future have not only varied,they have also changed greatly in the course of time. The future, if nothing else, has a past-our own conception of it included. The modern future was born, according to one precise … Continue reading →