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- Title
Futurism, Futurology, Future Shock, Climate Change: Visions of the Future from 1909 to the Present.
- Authors
Potts, John
- Abstract
This essay charts a brief intellectual history of the futures--both utopian and dystopian--conceived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It traces perspectives on the future since 1909, when the term 'futurism' was coined in the publication of the 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism.' The essay maps changes in the vision of the future, taking a chronological approach in noting developments in the discourse on the future. A prominent theme in pronouncements on the future is technological progress, first in relation to industrial technology, later in the context of post-industrial or information technology. A turning-point in this discourse can be isolated in the early 1970s, when ideas of technological progress begin to be challenged in the public sphere; from that date, environmental concern becomes increasingly significant in discussions of the future.
- Subjects
FUTURISM (Literary movement); CLIMATE change; INFORMATION technology
- Publication
PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2018, Vol 15, Issue 1/2, p99
- ISSN
1449-2490
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5130/portal.v15i1-2.5810