Peter Adamson

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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps · Bonus Episode: Glenn Adamson on A Century of Tomorrows · 16 Aug 2026 podcast

You know, think about George Clinton and his Mary Dang, you know, they're literally coming down from a spaceship or something like

you the idea that the future is elsewhere than what mainstream American society would suggest it to be, and you simply constitute it in the moment as if you're almost

Leaping into the future comedian and simply constituting it.

in the now.

I suppose you could also say as a kind of denial of that disjunction between the present and the future that we talked about beginning of a conversation and an insistence that the things actually collapse into one another.

And so if you understand it in relation to broader experience, for example, the idea that time itself might be an illusion and that on LSD you might actually experience that as a truth and then try to bring it back into your everyday life.

And then when we get to the end of the century, we wind up in this situation which is the opposite of what they were phrasing the end of the nineteenth century, because in the century in this hundred years that have passed, the ability to acquire information that might be relevant to the future has gone from having a dearth of information, like we just don't know.

to having quite a bit of information, to having so much information we couldn't possibly make user.

Yeah.

And this is why the last chapter is called The Flood.

The Flood, yeah.

And I also talk about it as the complexity complex.

So here, just to restate what you just said.

The way that I think of the whole book and the whole history of twentieth century futuroogy is that you're going from generally speaking a state of uncertainty to a state of increasing set an increasing sense of certainty and predictability through these techniques of futuroology to another state of uncertainty, but for the opposite reason.

So you're going from a low information society to a high information society under control

The futurologist to some extent to uh

society that is so shocked through with information of all kinds that the problem is you don't know which information is valid or relevant.

And also it start pieces of data, but also forces of various kinds, economic and political especially, start to influence one another in ways that are as unpredictable as the weather used to be all before we had these observation techniques, right?

So this is where we get the the term poly crisis that is sort of in the air these days.

That, you know, political

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