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Futurism
Futurists or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose specialty is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.
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Futurists imagine multiple possible futures, as quantum physicists are set on multiple present realities.
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― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
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Stephen, how do we know what the ultimate good of Humanity will entail? We haven’t at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. If so, the Machines must move in that direction, preferably without telling us, since in our ignorant prejudices
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― I, Robot
― I, Robot
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