When we start talking about the future, our minds move quickly into the fictional and fantastical, or, oddly, along a different axis, towards “dystopian” or “utopian”.
Never do we consider “futuristic” to just mean in the future without any big change. Life in the future that’s kind of like life now. And — dare I say it — with each passing year, life just like in the past.
All of this is to say we clearly have biases about the future. And before we can engage in a meaningful discussion about realistic futurism, we need to address them.
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