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future: like beads on an infinite string
The modern future was born, according to one dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440… …This linear conception of the time is another essential ingredient of the modern … Continue reading
tomorrow: not rotating on the great cosmic wheel
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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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
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the future is not what it was
…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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