Armchair Adventurer
Back in the 20th century, a husband and wife team of "futurists" wrote a revolutionary book. It was a best-seller that excited us all about the fast-moving and confusing world of tomorrow that was rushing towards us. It was a book of prophecy that was a hot cocktail party topic. The book was called Future Shock. Although published as the work of Alvin Toffler, his wife Heidi is now credited as co-author.
"Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future." "Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."“The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order”
"in the mid-1940s the first professional "futurist" consulting institutions like RAND and SRI began to engage in long-range planning, systematic trend watching, scenario development, and visioning, at first under WWII military and government contract and, beginning in the 1950s, for private institutions and corporations. The period from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s laid the conceptual and methodological foundations of the modern futures studies field. Bertrand de Jouvenel's The Art of Conjecture in 1963 and Dennis Gabor's Inventing the Future in 1964 are considered key early works, and the first U.S. university course devoted entirely to the future was taught by futurist Alvin Toffler at The New School in 1966" -more
Labels: 2010, 20th Century, 21st Century, Prophecy, Time Travel
9 Comments:
Does "Dry Bones", the name you chose for this cartoon strip, have anything to do with the future of Israel?
No we did not make it through the first decade of the twenty first century. We made it through the first 9 years of the twenty first century. Since years are counted as year 3 BCE, year 2 BCE, year 1 BCE , year 1 CE , year 2 CE, without year 0 , the twenty first century started on January 1, 2001. Why is this simple arithmetic beyond the math capabilities of half of humankind is beyond me.
I am STILL waiting for my Flying Car!
Back in the 1940's we were all promised Flying Cars by the turn of the Century.
Well it TURNED! Where is my Flying CAR?
I am going to hold my breath until I get my Flying Car!
John Travolta has your car
dear anonymous
dry bones does indeed have something to do with Israel's future.
open your Bible and check out Ezekiel 37.
or perhaps some kindly reader will leave a fuller response.
:-)
bones
There are three possibilities given in the Talmud for what happened.
1. It was a "dream" or a metaphor given as a prophecy
2. They stood up, sang praises to Hashem, and then died.
3. They resumed their lives, married, had children, and continued as part of the Jewish people.
The rabbi who gave the last possibility stated that he was a descendent of those people and still had the tefillin of his ancestor.
(Correcting URL)
There WERE "flying cars" c 1958 ce . . . and before !! See
http:// inventorspot.com/articles/
experiments_flying_cars_6835
One was a Crosley-sized vehicle. http://www.aerocar.com/
Yes I remember Future Shock. It was a book that made me think about the future. It is still worth reading !!
We are all "time travelors", one second at a time. However it is a one way trip.
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