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The History of the Future – HarperCollins

Even if we can’t foresee the unforeseeable, it’s possible to project a future reality where the most logical conclusions have no relationship to what actually happens.

Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand

Marcus Chown

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We often assume that the world of today would stun a visitor from fifty years ago. In truth, for every miraculous iPad there are countless partly broken realities: WiFi passwords, connectivity, battery life, privacy and compatibility amongst others. The real skill of creating a compelling and engaging view of the future lies not in designing the gl... See more

Nick Foster • The Future Mundane - Core77

The future consists not of atoms or bits, but imagination. It is not the endpoint of a deterministic trend, but contingent and always subject to reinvention. The future is a question to be answered by what we choose to do next.

Eliot Peper • The Possibility Engine

Over and over again he recalled her words: Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. The mathematical structure of cosmic sociology is far clearer than that of human sociology. The factors of chaos and randomness in the complex makeups of ev

Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)

Future Shock

Alvin Toffler • 1 highlight