A futurist is not who you want to talk to if you want to understand the technoscientific state of the art in research or engineering. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015A futurist is not who you want to talk to if you want to understand the stakeholders contesting a technodevelopmental outcome politically. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015A futurist is not who you want to talk to if you want to grasp critical or creative responses to technoscientific vicissitudes. 3
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015A futurist is who you want to talk to if you want to go to a corporate pep rally (innovate!) or see an ad peddling consumerism (gizmos!). 4
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015There are already-constituted disciplines and experts doing every single legitimate thing one might foolishly turn to futurists for. 5
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015Futurism is an anti-disciplinarity pretending to be an inter-disciplinarity. 6
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015In all this, futurism is of a piece with an anti-intellectual, anti-academic corporate-military think-tankification of public discourse... 7
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015...as well as the suffusion of all public life with the deceptive, hyperbolic norms and forms of promotional and marketing discourses. 8
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015
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