I am not interested in the future per se ... if there is such a thing. But it is interesting to understand how people write, talk and act to make sense about it.
Wired magazine announced that futurims is dead:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/view.html?pg=1
and has been criticised, of course, by futurists:
http://www.wfs.org/futurism.htm