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Every investigation which is defined as “prospective” and which tends to offer previsions of the state of society in the coming decades is suspect of futurology. Futurology has two defects generally: firstly, in the form of almost science-fictional previsions it projects into the future problems which exist in the present; secondly, it examines these problems from a purely technical point of view, as if they could be solved by an abstract Utopian society demonstrating great advanced technology, without considering the tendencies apparent in today’s phenomena and without manifesting any consideration for the leading ideologies of our time. Essentially, futurology thinks in a non-political way about supposed problems of the future which are actually political problems of today.
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Eco, U. (1972). A Semiotic Approach to Acculturation and Participation. In: Fears and Hopes for European Urbanization. Plan Europe 2000, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2768-7_3
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