Is the Future Obsolete?

Has “the future”—like the icebox, the buggy whip, and life without social networks—become something the world has outgrown, a concept whose time, having triumphantly come, is now ignominiously gone? We are not suggesting that time will somehow stop, or that we will stay frozen in an eternal present....

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Published in:World futures review 2013-06, Vol.5 (2), p.135-143
Main Authors: Mathews, Ryan, Singer, Jim
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Has “the future”—like the icebox, the buggy whip, and life without social networks—become something the world has outgrown, a concept whose time, having triumphantly come, is now ignominiously gone? We are not suggesting that time will somehow stop, or that we will stay frozen in an eternal present. But we are asking whether, in an increasingly high-tech, globalized world, the idea of “the future” may have strayed from its historical cultural idiom and lost at least some of its meaning and purpose in and for our lives.
ISSN:1946-7567
2169-2793
DOI:10.1177/1946756713487847