futurology? not on your life mate…
Today there’s been a lot of banter about futurology. Earlier we went to lunch with a few of the commercial guys from the Telegraph where we were asked “So, outside of all the money and time constraints, how do you think this is all going to look in the future?” Neil responded by saying anyone who tried to predict the future was, “a fool”, and he’s right, I mean - look at James’s blog post for TCUK today (he’s blogging for Shane while he’s living it up on holiday).
Obviously I’m joking, James isn’t predicting the future any more than I would - the thing is, that the digital world changes so fast at the moment - we were reminded today that it was only the beginning of the year when we were all telling each other to ‘get on the Facebook‘ - look at where we are now (and how much it’s now worth.)
A great example of one of these fools is probably one of my favorite links (posted on my Facebook profile obviously,) from Dazed Digital. Now apart from my Shoreditch Twat leanings (I do like dazed digital on occasions) they’ve really gone overboard with this one here - Ashok Gangadean at the bottom of the page makes a total arse of himself when asked this very question. “A virtual inter-net of minds”??? Ridiculous.
I suppose the point I’m making, is that if you want to make a laughing-stock of yourself, have a pop at it, but even guessing what’s going to be the big thing in 18 months these days is something you should leave the to the experts.
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