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Entry Posted June 21, 2008

http://kk.org/ct2/2008/06/unthinkable-futures.php Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno come up with some provocative “unthinkable futures”: “A new profession“cosmetic psychiatry“is born. People visit “plastic psychiatrists” to get interesting neuroses and obsessions added into their makeup.” 09:08

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… Unthinkable Futures* Computer screens (both CRT and flat screens) are found to be dangerous to the health. Working at a computer is viewed as a toxic job.  I used to work at a management consaltancy (Sifo Management Group - SMG - folded in 2003) specializing in …

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… process that voter turnout drops to 2 percent (families and relatives of prospective politicians) until finally the “democratic process” is abandoned in favour of a lottery system. Everything immediately improves.” Brian Eno See the rest ofthe list of unthinkable futures. Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Quotes. Have feed back? Post a comment. Follow the comments to this entry via dedicated feed or subscribe to global comments feed. …

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!=if it limps like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a lame duck (b1ff.org):
… Kevin Kelly exhumes “Unthinkable Futures” from the Summer ’93 Whole Earth Review, the result of a back-and-forth with Brian Eno. The structure (KK, BE, KK, BE) is important, because KK‘s first round was ‘pure’ fantasy, uninformed by Eno’s very different style. Here are the four …

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… is to gather together existing but overlooked pieces of amateur art, and, by directing attention onto them, to make them important. (This is part of a much larger theory of mine about the new role of curatorship, the big job of the next century.) --Brian Eno …

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… task is to gather together existing but overlooked pieces of amateur art, and, by directing attention onto them, to make them important. (This is part of a much larger theory of mine about the new role of curatorship, the big job of the next century.)Link …

Reckon (reckon.ws):
… is to gather together existing but overlooked pieces of amateur art, and, by directing attention onto them, to make them important. (This is part of a much larger theory of mine about the new role of curatorship, the big job of the next century.)” -Brian Eno via Kevin Kelly …

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… Unthinkable Futures: via dailymeh:This list of unthinkable futures — probabilities we tend to dismiss without thinking — was published 15 years ago in the Summer, 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Our intent was less to correctly predict the future (thus the …

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… A list of predictions about the unthinkable future by Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno, made in 1993. This one by Eno isn't half bad: A new type of artist arises: someone whose task is to gather together existing but overlooked pieces of amateur art, and, by directing attention onto them, to make them important. (This is part of a much …

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… Alcohol is so severely restricted that people need “licenses” to drink it. Tobacco is, of course, prohibited from being sold. You can grow your own, though, and some do. The underworld moves to North Carolina as cigarets become contraband.”Link …

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… Books that changed my life -- I don't mean merely great books, or memorable ones, or favorite ones. I mean books that altered your behavior, changed your mind, redirected the course of your life. Books as levers.Unthinkable futures-- Improbability is still a strong bias to overcome. Much that is happening today would have been dismissed as unbelievably bad science fiction only 15 years ago. The US with secret prisons torturing Muslims? Street sweepers in India with their own …

Kit·Blog Notes (kitblog.com):
… process that voter turnout drops to 2 percent (families and relatives of prospective politicians) until finally the “democratic process” is abandoned in favour of a lottery system. Everything immediately improves.” Brian Eno See the rest ofthe list of unthinkable futures …

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… A list of predictions about the unthinkable future by Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno, made in 1993. This one by Eno isn’t half bad: A new type of artist arises: someone whose task is to gather together existing but overlooked pieces of amateur art, and, by directing attention onto them, to make them important. (This is part of a …

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