Friday, February 10, 2012

[ssvzuvwq] Futurists of the past

Who in the past made good predictions about the future?  More importantly, what was their methodology in creating the prediction, and why did their methodology succeed when those of others failed?

Having identified those successful methodologies, let's predict the future.

I find broad social predictions hundreds of years into the future to be interesting.  What will change?  What will remain the same, perhaps doing the same stupid behavior we've been doing forever?

Attitudes toward sexuality.  Mental health.  Economics and sociology.  Religion.

In 500 years, what -- which we do now -- will we look back embarrassed at how primitive we were?  (Answering the same question, looking back: medicine, slavery, social class, geocentrism)

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