The Expected World

Culture & Society

Art, religion, language, demographics, migration, cities, race, class, gender, morality, media, the shape of public life.

23 entries

2000In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary,…Toffler, 1970expired

2014Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enf…Asimov, 1964expired

1975There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality…Jacobs, 1961expired

1980Why did I pick on the next nine years instead of the next 900 for finding a solution to th…Ehrlich, 1971expired

1981In twenty years, the USSR will be producing almost twice as much industrial output as is n…Union, 1961expired

1888At present weapons are being changed every ten years, and even more frequently. In another…Dostoevsky, 1873expired

1960Once we recognise this with all the clearness that the clearness of the fact itself demand…Gasset, 1930expired

1968I pour my crisis regarding democratic thinking and universal feeling onto paper because no…Gombrowicz, 1958expired

1934So, one after another, either as pilots or passengers, will the members of the club ascend…Grahame-White, 1914expired

2025We will start to see some forms of robot sex appearing in high-income, very wealthy househ…Pearson, 2015expired

1965Two or three years ago, it appeared that automatic recognition of sizeable vocabularies wo…Licklider, 1960expired

2019After sixty years of devoted service, Moore's Law will die a dignified death no later than…Kurzweil, 2001expired

2000These societies, these generations which no longer expect anything from some future 'comin…Baudrillard, 1992expired

2000Dismisssing the Italian or Continental look of the 1950’s (Italy is third in Cardin sales,…Barry, 1968expired

1924The Great War had been the explosion of a vast accumulation of energy, moral and social as…Wells, 1924expired

1818Proportional access to professions or The middle way between free competition and commerci…Fourier, 1808expired

1858The hordes are making daily inroads into the cultivated areas of Asia, spilling further an…Fourier, 1808expired

1970In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary,…Toffler, 1970expired

1930[...] we have been expressly evolved by nature-with all our impulses and deepest instincts…Keynes, 1930expired

1981A few years ago London was surprised by a play called Rossum's Universal Robots. The produ…Magazine, 1931expired

1980Closer at hand and perhaps equally decisive is another no less threatening event. This is …Press, 1958expired

2010Viewed within a multiparadigmatic framework, cognitive psychology may be the most likely o…Gosling, 2003expired

2010TÉLÉVISION: L'objet le plus familier au monde. En 2010, plus de deux milliards de télévise…Attali, 1998expired