/2007/07/04/the-futures-of-convergence-maybe/Andrew Curry's blog on futures, trends, emerging issues and scenariosThu, 05 Jul 2007 12:10:43 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com//2007/07/04/the-futures-of-convergence-maybe/#comment-201Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:25:30 +0000/2007/07/04/the-futures-of-convergence-maybe/#comment-201‘To be honest, we didn’t find the positive scenarios to be all that interesting. So we decided to consider: what if it all went wrong – even horribly wrong? [My emphasis]’
Yes, someone recently said to me that Aldous Huxley found ‘Island’ much more difficult to write than ‘Brave New Wordl’. Dystopias seem to be more attractive to authors and futurologists, they contain more drama.
However, for me, this often implies a facile moral disengagement. It’s an intellectual way of sitting on our hands or teenagers painting their bedroom walls black.

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