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Thoughts of progress past
Now the main text of the book is complete (yay), I may do smaller posts here more often – and some larger ones, too. For now, I just reviewed David Knight’s nice new book on 19th Century s… more →
The future - a rough guide
Thoughts of progress past
jonturney wrote 1 week ago: Now the main text of the book is complete (yay), I may do smaller posts here more often – and … more →
Future shock revisited
jonturney wrote 1 month ago: Wanted to go to a local screening last night, but indoors with ‘flu or some viral relative … more →
when the future was cool
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jonturney wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been thinking again about retrofutures, nostalgia for what we were told it was going to b … more →
Flying cars relaunched (not)
jonturney wrote 8 months ago: forget the flu commentaries, what we need is flying cars sorry, that should read, what we need is se … more →
(yet another) flying car
jonturney wrote 9 months ago: Damn thing just won’t go away… This one is “practical”, though. I see. You c … more →
Limits to Growth got it right…
jonturney wrote 1 year ago: New Scientist recently ran a suite of features on the need to re-think our assumptions about economi … more →
US future intelligence
jonturney wrote 1 year ago: Nothing like getting your retaliation in first… Entertaining US lefty commentator Tom Engelh … more →
Archaeologies of the Future
jonturney wrote 1 year ago: Fredric Jameson has registered faintly on my radar for years, but I’ve never followed his trajectory … more →
middling optimism
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jonturney wrote 1 year ago: Reviews of the future from the recent past are always instructive. Jonathan Margolis’ A Brief … more →
When it changed
jonturney wrote 1 year ago: Studies of fiction yield an interesting take on when attitudes to the range of possible futures chan … more →
