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The Future Mundane - Core77
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“This is why I brought Blueprint along, everybody,” I said. “As you can see, he’s a forward thinker. The writer Frederik Pohl once said, ‘A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.’ The claim that everything in the future will be programmable is an automobile idea. It’s not too hard to see or say
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What makes such design even conceivable is that we need to know or guess about the future only enough to guide the commitments we must make today.