“Future Reflections” is a 20-minute-long video, a meandering discussion of what the future might have meant, or might some day mean, or might some day have meant, perhaps from the point of view of people in the future or of people in the recent past who are imagining the future. The video documents some thoughts […]
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Newspapers now in the future
Newspapers today, as prognosticated by T. Baron Russell in 1906 in his book A Hundred Years Hence: the regeneration of the newspaper will be forced upon the newspaper-office by the development of public intelligence.… a well-informed public will resent obvious garbling or clearly unfair selection. The newspaper reader will no longer (as now) want only […]
War today in the future
War today, as prognosticated by T. Baron Russell in 1906 in his book A Hundred Years Hence: we may take it as quite certain that war as an institution will be as obsolete as gladiators in the year 2000. Even if the increasing amenity of the human race did not abolish war, two other things […]
Advertising now in the future
Advertising today, as prognosticated by T. Baron Russell in 1906 in his book A Hundred Years Hence: advertising will in the future world become gradually more and more intelligent in tone. It will seek to influence demand by argument instead of clamour, a tendency already more apparent every year. Cheap attention-calling tricks and clap-trap will […]