Not a fan of Sagan. His atheist outlook was very unscientific and unphilosophical, and that was too bad for he was a decent scientist. Scientists that are dilettantes in philosophy and theology simply cap intelligent thought in spiritual fields. The excellence in science deludes them into believing they know everything and condescension arises to the masses. People like Leibnitz didn’t do that in the past. He was an inventor of calculus, mathematical logic and one-dimensional spiritual monads.
This morning I watched a video extolling the realm of James Webb discoveries that said the universe is evolving to realize itself through human consciousness. That was an adaptation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind- ‘God evolving to realize himself through history’. Nothing like the timeless classic philosophers from Thales, Socrates, Plotinus and Anaximander to Democritus, Heraclitus and Parmenides for futurism.
Good sources of futurism are physics publications. The discoveries and theories about the Universe-there are numerous ones; allow for informed metaphysical extrapolation of technologies to travel faster than light for example, reflecting ideas about an holographic universe, a universe with two-dimension underpinnings supporting the third-dimension quantum entanglement that seems to be a real Universe physically via the Higgs field.
It seems apparent that a two-dimension field with ripples of waveforms in it could have wave crests entangled as prominences from the fields. It could be about anything from the word of God having spoken into darkness to a reflection from a distant drummer banging the gong with sound waves.
I liked Toffler’s Future Shock in 1972 yet the problem of two many choices he presented was solved by a mass economic slump following the end of the Vietnam war rather than a promiscuity settled by monogamy and a woman ruling the home with an iron rod.
Harlan Ellison’s classic ‘I have No mouth and Must Scream’ comes to mind when I take generative AI courses on-line at courser.org. Taking environmental adaptation and economic courses at courser.org also allow hard scientific formulations for environmental economic plans in addition to dystopias. There is another course there that describes inventing one’s own planet atmosphere in a solar system given understanding of atmospheric greenhousing, distance from a star etc. Robert Heinlein was a naval academy graduate so he understood weapons fairly well and could extrapolate from that. One can use YouTube for all sorts of ideas about making new weapons to destroy worlds…great stuff for hard Sci-Fi though not such a good trend for the survival of human life.
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