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The Future Is Already A Disappointment

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The Future Is Already A Disappointment

Paul Starr on a Disappointing Future | Decider Chatbot | Corporate Rebels on Smartlets | Tim Herrera on Starting What We Never Finish | NPR Temps | McKinsey on African-Americans and Automation

Stowe Boyd
Jan 28, 2019
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The Future Is Already A Disappointment

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Beacon NY — 2018–10–17 — I’m inverting things by starting with the quote of the day and comments originally from 2014:

“The future has already been a disappointment.”

| Paul Starr, The Second Machine Age, Reviewed

Starr juxtaposes techno optimism and pessimism, spiraling about the core question: why doesn’t rapid innovation in technology and science lead t…

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