[ExI] Too Much Futurism or Not Enough?

[spike]

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
Subject: Re: [ExI] Too Much Futurism or Not Enough?

On 2012-06-10 18:07, Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> It seems that there is something missing. I don't know what and 
> perhaps it is just a "gut" feeling. But I trust my instincts and I 
> sense this quite strongly.

>...There is the future as entertainment and as something that is coming
real. I think we have ended up with far more thinking about it as
entertainment, and it is drenching out the attempts of actually building
it.--Anders Sandberg


Ja.  One way to look at it is that the future as entertainment is what pays
the bills.  Something needs to pay for development, and entertainment is as
good as anything else I can imagine.  Governments will pay only for
defense-related futurism.

spike