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> The Futurist > He comments on the latest breathless press releases from tech companies. This will change everything! say the press releases. “No it won’t”, h

> The Futurist > He comments on the latest breathless press releases from tech companies. This will change everything! say the press releases. “No it won’t”, he comments. This is the greatest invention ever to exist! say the press releases. “It’s a scam,” he says. He's got the name backwards on this one. What he's describing is more of an anti-futurist. IMHO, futurists and the ones that make implausibly grand predictions about the future that almost always end up not being true.

quocanh 5y ago
I think the irony here is more pleasing.
AlexCoventry 5y ago
Bruce Sterling did an OK job. Heavy Weather reads like prophecy, these days.
SolarNet 5y ago
I think you are listening to the wrong futurists then.
_Nat_ 5y ago
Legitimate futurists are objecting to some pop-culture nonsense with NFT's, cryptocurrency, etc., often describing such things as scams. I suspect that the author may've had that in mind there. It may be sorta like the problem with science: there's real science and pop-culture science-flavored junk, and pop-culture audiences may perceive real scientists as dismissive because they're always so critical of the latest pop-culture fads. So while futurists may love new-tech and scientists may love science, pop-culture may see things differently because they see futurists/scientists dismissing (what they perceive to be) new-tech/science.
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  > It may be sorta like the problem with science: there's real science and pop-culture science-flavored junk It's kind of an aside, but I think a lot of people (most?) who strongly identify with "science" really identify with science fiction.
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ducttapecrown 5y ago
Your idea that there's a format to the names is a great heuristic that works most of the time :-)
koboll 5y ago
This seems like the weakest example. I immediately thought of that Paul Krugman quote from the 1990s where he pooh-poohed the internet, something that's stuck with him forever and made him a laughingstock where futurism is concerned.

quocanh 5y ago

I think the irony here is more pleasing.

AlexCoventry 5y ago

Bruce Sterling did an OK job. Heavy Weather reads like prophecy, these days.

SolarNet 5y ago

I think you are listening to the wrong futurists then.

_Nat_ 5y ago

Legitimate futurists are objecting to some pop-culture nonsense with NFT's, cryptocurrency, etc., often describing such things as scams. I suspect that the author may've had that in mind there. It may be sorta like the problem with science: there's real science and pop-culture science-flavored junk, and pop-culture audiences may perceive real scientists as dismissive because they're always so critical of the latest pop-culture fads. So while futurists may love new-tech and scientists may love science, pop-culture may see things differently because they see futurists/scientists dismissing (what they perceive to be) new-tech/science.

tablespoon 5y ago
> It may be sorta like the problem with science: there's real science and pop-culture science-flavored junk It's kind of an aside, but I think a lot of people (most?) who strongly identify with "science" really identify with science fiction.
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ducttapecrown 5y ago

Your idea that there's a format to the names is a great heuristic that works most of the time :-)

koboll 5y ago

This seems like the weakest example. I immediately thought of that Paul Krugman quote from the 1990s where he pooh-poohed the internet, something that's stuck with him forever and made him a laughingstock where futurism is concerned.