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the future: misleading desires for permanence

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Dave

The future is a relic, and industry and a myth. For all our scientific prognostications, do we know any more about it than the average Zoroastrian? …After Louis Sebastien Mercier passed into the dustbin of history, a new breed of … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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