influx quote of the month- william gibson

07/17/2007 06:57:58 PM
William Gibson maybe one of the greatest sci-fi writers of his generation, he is also the best friend of planners everywhere. He even wrote a book about them. His new book, Spook Country, looks intersting, as usual.

In a recent interview, he gave us planners the perfect quote.

"There’s a character in my previous novel, Pattern Recognition , who argues that we can’t culturally have futures the way that we used to have futures because we don’t have a present in the sense that we used to have a present. Things are moving too quickly for us to have a present to stand on from which we can say, “oh, the future, it’s over there and it looks like this.”

Without a present, there can be no future.

Via Pasta and Vinegar


Posted by Ed Cotton
Tags: forecast (1) present (1) williamgibson (1) trends (5) futuriusts (1) spookcountry (1) forecasting (2) future (3) trend (2)

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