Mullen is not considered one of the brainy futurists or crusaders who once surrounded Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Futurists have predicted the demise of branches before, and so far have been proved wrong.
It seems to be an ever-growing community of founders, technologists and futurists in the city.
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And if the career futurists are right, that may be the cornerstone to the labor economy of the future.
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It prompted modernization from Italian futurists who sought to rival their French peers.
Futurists predict faster changes in the next 20 years, with large impacts on economy, sociology and our daily life.
But the intensity of ambition of the Futurists and of Kandinsky batters misgivings.
The answer is both intriguing and quite unlike most futurists I know.
There are futurists who are far, far too optimistic about the rate of technological progress, and others who are too vastly too pessimistic.
This is why a new breed of observers is now joining the ever-present futurists and gadget geeks in studying the consequences of this technology.
It has caught the attention of futurists who address not only how we will live in the 21st century but also where we will live.
Visioneers and the communities of researchers, futurists, and entrepreneurs they attracted have often existed at the blurry border between scientific fact, technological possibility, and optimistic speculation.
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The rapid-fire Neo-Futurists (5153 N Ashland Ave), whose long-running, brilliant Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes will leave you breathless.
Valentina is currently hard at work writing a history of Via Margutta, and has discovered that the first meeting of the revolutionary Italian art movement, the Futurists, took place here in 1906.
Futurists predicted that the computer would make paper obsolete.
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There is something forced, a hysteria of the will, about the work, as there is about the drive of the Italian Futurists to represent motion, which stumbles on the fact that paintings hold dead still.
In our world-is-flat, winner-take-all economy, many futurists said the winners would fall into two camps: super nimble start-ups from Silicon Valley (and similar hotbeds) wielding world-class technology and talent and the largest multinationals with brand, reach and fortress balance sheets.
Petersburg in 1905, Daniil Kharms was one of the founders, in 1928, of OBERIU, or Association of Real Art, an avant-garde group of writers and artists who embraced the ideas of the Futurists and believed that art should operate outside the rules of logic.
Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.
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