{"id":327,"date":"2005-10-07T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=327"},"modified":"2005-10-10T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T11:52:15","slug":"future-ists-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Future-ists Uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m one of those who winces at the word “Futurist”. It was cool to see a title like “Visual Futurist” up on the screen next to an industrial designer’s name (e.g. Syd Mead), but in general the term – for me – puts pictures of tinfoil-hat-wearing alarmists in my mind’s eye. Not exactly my kind of crowd. And even my association with the SL Future Salon<\/a> – and by extension the Accelerating Change<\/a> folks – sometimes gives me pause. Well, the question of legitimacy is raised in this Wired article<\/a>, and for anyone who visits this blog it might be worth a read. Truth is, I wouldn’t even bother posting this entry except for one sentence in the whole piece: <\/p>\n

The APF, for example, had a recent annual meeting in Las Vegas, a venue Hines saw as appropriate for discussing the blurring boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now they’re talking. Maybe I’ll actually pull for them getting some kind of system in place to legitimize the title. Until then though, I’ll probably continue to wince.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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