Work Futures Daily - Marching Backwards Into The Future
The anthropology of the future is the study of ourselves. | Claude Lévi-Strauss
2018-04-09 Beacon NY - Yesterday, I touched on David Evans' thoughts on being a futurist.
'Futurist' sounds somewhat pretentious, so I often say I am a anthropologist of the future, or a work ecologist, because ecology and anthropology, while 'soft' sciences, are not so squishy as 'futurology' is.
In the piece, yesterday I used the Marshall McLuhan quote…