The Reluctant Optimist
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 10:57PM Yesterday's Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI) ran a short piece about the Paleo-Future blog:
"It's been quite a journey," he said. "When I first started the site, I thought I had maybe a month's worth of material, but I dug deeper and who knew how many different versions of the future had happened during the 20th Century?"
Novak has taken a few things from digging around in the past to find out what today should have looked like to people half a century, or more, ago.
"If there's anything I've learned, it's that no one can predict the future with any degree of certainty," he said.
"And it's given me optimism. Because no one knows the future with any certainty, it's freeing and kind of feeling like, 'That's good; the future's not determined, and we can do what we want with it and try to make it a better place.'"
See also:
What the future didn't bring
New Hampshire Public Radio (Jan, 2008)
Paleo-Future in the Wall Street Journal
Article for MungBeing
Sincerity and the Paleo-Future
Postmodern Paleo-Future
Streamlined Cars of the Future
Reader Comments (2)
Congrats on the well-deserved publicity. I really enjoy your blog.
Those who don't learn from paleo-future are doomed to repeat it. [g]
Ray X
PS: Keep up the great work.