Saffo is often asked, ‘Are you a futurist or a forecaster?’ A forecaster cannot slide into that advocacy role. The forecaster needs to be a bystander to events, whereas the futurist says, “this is the direction I think we should all go.” Paul Saffo is saying that futurism should be a science, not a religion. “If we don’t change directions soon, we are most certainly going to end up where we are headed,” says Saffo. Alfred Hitchcock’s law of futurism: the future will have long stretches of dull
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