Even more than overshooting technological achievements, however, it has been futurists\u2019 failure to anticipate major social change, most egregiously the women\u2019s and civil rights movements of the twentieth century, that has most seriously and justifiably damaged the reputation of the field. The bias toward predicting technological versus social progress has been and continues to be the Achilles\u2019 heel of futurism, the next wave of gadgets and gizmos easier to see coming than a cultural tsunami. It is, as Arnold Toynbee has pointed out, ideas, not technology, that have stirred the biggest changes in history, Lawrence M. Samuel \u2013 Future: A Recent History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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