A Few Rules for Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler
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A Few Rules for Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler
Somebody once said that a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
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to be helpful futuring, your imagination should be disciplined.
Ideally your imagined future would have a history. Whatever happens has to happen one-step at a time. So for every new technology or cultural innovation there needs to be versions that are economically viable one step at a time.
the game for the futurist is to try and imagine what led to... See more
Ideally your imagined future would have a history. Whatever happens has to happen one-step at a time. So for every new technology or cultural innovation there needs to be versions that are economically viable one step at a time.
the game for the futurist is to try and imagine what led to... See more