12 things journalists need to know to be good futurist reporters
As future/foresight reporting is all the rage nowadays, it's worth going back and taking a look at the 12 points Jamais Cascio had written a year ago:
- Nobody can predict the future
- Not everyone is surprised by surprises
- Even when it's fast, change feels slow
- Most trends die out
- The future is usually the present, only moreso
- There are always options
- Dinosaurs lived for over 200 million years
- Gadgets are not futurism
- Sports scores and stock quotes" was 1990s futurist-ese for "I have no idea;" "social networking and tagging" looks to be the 2000s version
- "Technology" is anything invented since you turned 13
- The future belongs to the curious
- "The future is process, not a destination."
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