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The anthropology of the future is the study of ourselves. | Claude Lévi-Strauss

Apr 09, 2018

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2018-04-09 Beacon NY - Yesterday, I touched on David Evans' thoughts on being a futurist.

'Futurist' sounds somewhat pretentious, so I often say I am a anthropologist of the future, or a work ecologist, because ecology and anthropology, while 'soft' sciences, are not so squishy as 'futurology' is.

In the piece, yesterday I used the Marshall McLuhan quote…

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