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  • MOST of the trends of the future didn't happen

    From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Saturday, September 26, 2020 08:54:00
    Hello Dennisk!

    ** On Saturday 26.09.20 - 07:34, dennisk wrote to Andeddu:

    ...By the way, notice how that futurists are never
    challenged decades later? I would say MOST of the trends of
    the future didn't happen, or didn't have the effect that
    people foresaw.

    Yes.. that is so true. I get frustrated with people who
    listen to self-prophesing seers who have predictions of the
    future.. and when that time in the future arrives and is
    unfulfilled no one challenges the original source of the
    claim.


    There will be large cities in the future, but they won't be
    the delightful, efficient utopias we thought, not will the
    be a model of the future. They will be the unfortunate
    legacy of a past that we can't quite get rid of yet.

    Stick around. We will be sure to challenge your predictions!
    ;) But your vision/opinion was very broad and general.

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  • From Dennisk@VERT/EOTLBBS to Ogg on Sunday, September 13, 2020 19:55:00
    Ogg wrote to All <=-

    Hello Dennisk!

    ** On Saturday 26.09.20 - 07:34, dennisk wrote to Andeddu:

    ...By the way, notice how that futurists are never
    challenged decades later? I would say MOST of the trends of
    the future didn't happen, or didn't have the effect that
    people foresaw.

    Yes.. that is so true. I get frustrated with people who
    listen to self-prophesing seers who have predictions of the
    future.. and when that time in the future arrives and is
    unfulfilled no one challenges the original source of the
    claim.


    There will be large cities in the future, but they won't be
    the delightful, efficient utopias we thought, not will the
    be a model of the future. They will be the unfortunate
    legacy of a past that we can't quite get rid of yet.

    Stick around. We will be sure to challenge your predictions!
    Og> ;) But your vision/opinion was very broad and general.

    I'm not going to be bold as to predict specifics, I'm not sure. But I
    can see cities in decline as we speak. If in 2030, a young man and woman
    have a better change of living in a city, getting a good secure job,
    buying a house, having a local community they belong to and are able to
    travel around the city easily, than what the Boomers
    had, I'll eat a sock.


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