Futurism Quotes

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“I foresee death by culture shock.”
― Woody Allen

“Futurists imagine multiple possible futures, as quantum physicists are set on multiple present realities.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“The Thirties had seen the first generation of American industrial designers; until the Thirties, all pencil sharpeners looked like pencil sharpeners—your basic Victorian mechanism, perhaps with a curlicue of decorative trim. After the advent of the designers, some pencil sharpeners looked as though they’d been put together in wind tunnels. For the most part, the change was only skin-deep; under the streamlined chrome shell, you’d find the same Victorian mechanism. Which made a certain kind of sense, because the most successful American designers had been recruited from the ranks of Broadway theater designers. It was all a stage set, a series of elaborate props for playing at living in the future.”
― William Gibson

“In our UN-VICE world (UNknown, Volatile, Intersecting, Complex & Exponential), the lines between the present and future are becoming blurred, more liminal.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“Despite the unpredictability of our complex world, focusing on constants is still insightful. Relative to the variabilities of change, the unwavering direction and consistent rhythm of constants stand out.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“If you ask me what remains to be known in the future, I’ll say, ‘Memorize all the world’s encyclopedias.’ Once you do that, forget all that fancy junk and rake the leaves – else I’m gonna take a stick to you, boy.”
― M.C. Humphreys

“The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.”
― Charles Lee Lesher, Shadow on the Moon

“Determining whether AI is on the road to superintelligence or superstupidity may not matter as much as ensuring that humanity does not rely on AI without a solid understanding of the consequences.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“While futurists imagine multiple possible futures, quantum physicists research multiple present realities.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Stephen, how do we know what the ultimate good of Humanity will entail? We haven’t at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. If so, the Machines must move in that direction, preferably without telling us, since in our ignorant prejudices we only know that what we are used to, is good — and we would then fight change. Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. We don’t know. Only the Machines know, and they are going there and taking us with them.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“وجود خودم را حس می‌کنم. اما تنها بعضی چیزها وجود خودشان را حس می‌کنند و از فردیتشان آگاهند؛ چشمی که خاری در آن رفته، انگشت ملتهب و دندان چرک کرده!
چشم، انگشت و دندان سالم حس نمی‌شوند، انگار که وجود ندارند.
آیا خودآگاهی به وضوح چیزی جز نوعی بیماری نیست؟”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“من فقط یکی چیز می‌خواهم و آن چیز «او»ست. می‌خواهم که او هر لحظه، هر دقیقه کنارم باشد، فقط با من.
تمام چیزهایی که همین حالا درباره‌ی وحدت نوشتم همه‌اش بی‌ربط است، چیزی نیست که باید باشد، دلم می‌خواهد تمامش را خط بزنم، پاره کنم و دور بریزم.
چون می‌دانم (شاید کفر باشد، اما واقعیت است): جشن فقط با او جشن می‌شود، فقط زمانی که او کنارم و شانه‌به‌شانه‌ام باشد. بدون او، خورشید فردا چیزی نیست جز دایره‌ای حلبی و آسمان، حلبی‌ای که رنگ آبی به آن زده باشند و خودم هم، چیزی نیستم جز تکه‌ای حلبی!”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“آدم مثل یک کتاب است: تا آخرین صفحه‌اش نمی‌دانی پایان کارش چطور رقم می‌خورد. در غیر این‌صورت ارزش خواندن ندارد...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“I believe that the vision of most, if not all, sci-fi writers is to warn humanity of all present and future dangers. Well, that's what I'm doing, anyway, occasionally having fun with fantasy, adventure, and pure fiction.”
― Bob Bello, Starcall Anthology 1

“Легче трьом верблюдам
з теличкою
в 1/8 вушка голки
пролізти
ніж футуристові крізь укрлітературу до
своїх продертись.
Я протяг вас
через всі нетрі й
усіма головними вулицями столиць.
Що ж ви —
будете топтатися й далі
як отара
овець?”
― Mykhail Semenko, В садах безрозних

“After all, today’s debate between today’s religions, ideologies, nations and classes will in all likelihood disappear along with Homo sapiens. If our successors indeed function on a different level of consciousness (or perhaps possess something beyond consciousness that we cannot even conceive), it seems doubtful that Christianity or Islam will be of interest to them, that their social organisation could be Communist or capitalist, or that their genders could be male or female.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The future belongs to the daughters of defiance.”
― Bibiana Krall, Axon Drift

“But make no-mistake— I want to go to outer space. I want to see humankind construct cities on far-off planets and moons. That doesn’t make it right, though, and it doesn’t mean that now is the time to do so.”
― Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

“Сюрреалізм успадкував від футуризму його схильність до безладу, яка змішує мистецтво і життя. Футуристи закликали до «алогічних» дій, які інспіруються військовим патріотизмом, сюрреалісти — до архібунтівних вчинків, черпаючи натхнення з революційного комунізму.

Як у одних, так і у других філософія дії залишилася літературним жестом, який не вів безпосередньо до практичних починань.

У футуристів перехід до практики був дуже полегшений тією обставиною, що через кілька років після їх літературних декларацій Італія взяла участь у світовій війні, і парадоксальний у 1910 році військовий патріотизм і культ ірраціональної дії перетворилися протягом однієї ночі, згідно з декретом про мобілізацію, в доктрину, яка стала обов'язковою для італійців з усіма її практичними наслідками. Цей декрет, перетворивши миттю у футуристів сотні тисяч спокійних громадян, позбавив прихильників Марінетті всієї їх оригінальності. Фашизм ще більше поглибив цей процес нівелювання, топлячи практичний футуризм у загальності й повсякденності. Футуристи стали схожими на всіх лояльних громадян, отримали разом з іншими ордени й помалу розчинилися серед сорока мільйонів інших футуристів.”
― Jerzy Stempowski, Eseje dla Kassandry

“It is easy to predict an automobile in 1880; it is very hard to predict a traffic problem.”
― Isaac Asimov

“... maybe it's a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines. I don't want to be hung out to dry on a dead branch of the evolutionary tree.”
― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

“They laughed when AI painted… they’ll be speechless when AI designs their dream car. – AIinCars”
― AICarDesign

“In the race between tradition and innovation, AIinCars is already at the finish line, waiting with the keys. – AIinCars”
― AIinCars

“Black Mirror warned us about tech, but AIinCars proves the future of driving can be beautiful, not dystopian. – AIinCars”
― AIinCars

“Tesla made cars electric, AI will make them alive. – AIinCars”
― AIinCars

“Creating harmonious, thriving societies will be humankind's greatest triumph and without that--everything else we have accomplished will be for naught.”
― Edmund Mazeika, Blueprint for Local Harmony: A People's Guide to Utopia

“I think it's always going to be easier to build a dystopia than a utopia and easier to build a utopia than something realistic.”
― Adam Becker

“The dynamic, where a foundational reality for one era becomes an unthinkable fiction for another, is not merely a historical curiosity. We can see the exact same structure of belief and denial play out by projecting it into a hypothetical future. Now, if there will come a time when in-vitro fertilization becomes the only way for humans to reproduce, let us say, not that I am wishing for this to happen, that sexual intercourse has been considered unhealthy to the point that history and technology erase the method or render it obsolete, then future humans could see that sexual method for reproduction as fictional. They might even deny it, no matter how absurd that denial may sound to us right now. For them, since they are from a time that generations over generations have passed and in-vitro is the new normal, reading a historical record may seem fictional to them as it can no longer be proven. Testing the sexual method for reproducing offspring would be immoral to them as the life of the offspring will be at risk (let’s say they have justified it to be too unhygienic or if at their time, there exist a virus that could be passed on if humans tried having sex) and they have made so many arguments to justify how safe in-vitro is.”
― E. Ravago, 10 Commandments: Opposing Unbiblical Claims

“The Industrial Revolution was the upgrading of societies and relied on the people within them to adapt and grow with it. The AI Revolution is leap-frogging over their descendants. The dinosaurs didn’t engineer their own cosmic catastrophe to hand over dominion of the Earth. Humanity stands entirely alone in actively programming its own successor.”
― Stewart Stafford