There’s the brain bug that says that we can ignore the things we know will be happening in the future, because we don’t want to deal with it, and moreover says that planning for the desired outcome alone is fine. We habitually silo off our plans for the future. We could easily say that this means that there is no coherent future – or no future at all.
Read MoreCyberpunk predicted in the early 1980s that people would one day live in a world that looked very much like the 1990s. Its authors – led by William Gibson – did this primarily by taking the temperature of the world around them and just predicting the worst non-apocalyptic future they could. It was also the most successfully predictive science fiction movement ever.
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