They're a think tank. They think up "concepts" and then rally influential people around them. Just like concept cars and high fashion, they don't intend to brin

They're a think tank. They think up "concepts" and then rally influential people around them. Just like concept cars and high fashion, they don't intend to bring that stuff literally to reality, but it absolutely does mark out the direction in which they intend to move things. Besides, this lenience of "don't take everything so literally" might equally be applied to whatever the swivel-eyed loons are saying, but somehow in that case any surface-level weirdness is seen as grounds to dismiss their subtler points entirely.