The future is probably weirder than we can imagine
Posted at 19:14:22
on Sun, July 08th 2007 by graham
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Charlie Stross has a written a nice piece illustrating the difficulty of positing plausible possible futures.
Unpacking the Zeitgeist (via Simon Willison):
... it is making my head hurt because there are too many prior assumptions nested recursively inside it to unpack easily.
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There are thirty years' worth of future shock condensed into this one news item. And the reason I'm writing about it is that I don't think I could get away with putting such an conceptually overloaded incident into one of my novels; it would take too much set-up and require so much infodumping that many readers would lose interest.
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