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Thursday, November 06, 2014

Ambitious

Futurologists want to be corporate consultants who are taken to be culture critics.

More Futurological Brickbats here.

2 comments:

jimf said...

> Futurologists want to be. . . culture critics.

And culture critics, apparently, want to be futurologists.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/fashion/artificial-intelligence-as-a-threat.html
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Fashion & Style - Disruptions
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat
By NICK BILTON
NOV. 5, 2014

Ebola sounds like the stuff of nightmares. Bird flu and
SARS also send shivers down my spine. But I’ll tell you
what scares me most: artificial intelligence. . .
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"Fashion & Style". How appropriate. ;->

Dale Carrico said...

Nobody who falls for futurological formulations for long is capable of doing cultural criticism. Ad copy simply isn't critical, however snazzy.