futurism 
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
12/13/2020
A Pacific NW Magazine Story from 1984 Predicted what Life in Seattle Would be Like Now. It was not Completely Wrong
A 1984 speculative article was prescient about environmental and economic developments in greater Seattle.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/12/2020
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
Writer Graeme Wood profiles Peter Turchin, whose data-driven and predictive approach appeals to quantitative thinkers but is scorned by some historians. Turchin's analytics predict a period of political and social upheaval in industrialized societies.
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SOURCE: BBC
9/23/2020
Are We Living at the "Hinge of History"?
Journalist Richard Fisher examines the argument that the present--this moment--is the most important juncture in human history because human capacity to affect the planet outstrips human wisdom to direct that capacity.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/15/2020
The Conspiracy Museum: A Speculative Address
by Robin Sloan
Where might the spread of conspiratorial thinking and evidence-free discourse lead? Read the opening address for the Smithsonian Museum of American Conspiracy from the year 2041.
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3/22/2020
Our Stories Will Carry Us to the Future. Can They Save Us Now?
by David Farrier
To avert a climate disaster, science is essential, but we also need stories. We know ourselves first and foremost in the tales we tell.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/17/19
Why we are obsessed with forecasting and futurism
by Devon Powers
The history of predicting the future.
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