Mike Meyer
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

And yet we are totally committed to trying. But, in fact, we do succeed and have succeeded very well. We do that by inventing the future that we predict. As we focus on ideas that are presented as a future environment, seeds of our actual future are spread and take root. Components of our changed future come from our shared interest in the ideas and narratives that make sense to us and, ultimately, to many of us. The secondary process is our continuous comparison of our own narratives against shared future ideas. Oh, we could actually do this now? is the question that we discuss a lot. That indicates a successful prediction that has come into reality by inventing the future. When thought of that way the entire process becomes much more important and demanding of serious thought.

You have obviously maintained a narrative that ultimately disproved much of the 1964 World’s Fair. I think most attempts at building that type of prediction are doomed but some can be surprisingly accurate. Here is one that mostly worked:

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