These days we’re used to seeing things move quickly: new products, new ways, each more extraordinary than before. We live in an age of anticipation. We anticipate the new; whether it frightens us or excites us, we anticipate change. In many ways this has made us all prognosticators, seers of tomorrow. But as a number [...]

It is true, and even some futurists forget, that not all change is radical or fast or even noticeable. Sometimes change will be entirely predictable. But we also know that sometimes, indeed, it will be radical, fast, and very noticeable, and the difference between those two states, and in the choatic interstice between them, is [...]