When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s everyone expected something like the Jetsons to exist here in the U.S. by the 1980s or 1990s. So many of my generation were pretty disappointed when instead of helicopters to drive cars didn't change that much. However, instead we got media like home computers and now 3d printing. Traveling has stayed about the same now since 1957 since passenger jets began around the world. So, the real change is the number of people on earth, home computers and the internet and 3d printers. But, cars, boats, planes, and helicopters haven't changed very much and neither have people really either. So, what was wrong with how we thought then? We didn't understand that things could go sideways rather than forwards to living on other planets and having our own helicopters to fly to work. Besides, with that many helicopters many more people would have died than have died in cars since then if you really give it some thought. However, then there are bridges that the U.S. can't afford to fix all over the place and family small helicopters might be just the ticket just like cellphones don't need millions of miles of copper wire to operate just cell phone towers or satellites instead. Also, huge 3d printers could print bridges like legos that could cost almost nothing to install or repair.
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Futurology is the Wikipedia-privileged - but somewhat outdated name for what is more frequently referred to in the last few decades as
futures studies. Futures studies is a
transdisciplinary field focused on medium to long-term
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predict
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critical/normative or preferred futures and civilisational or
cultural/interpretive futures.
[1] More recently two new approaches to futures studies have emerged: emancipatory/activist and integral/holistic futures
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