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a Symbol for Future

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Hi there,
I wanted to ask around, what do you think is the best Symbol for "the Future".
It should be something you can take a picture of... Cities? Long Blending Times and watching traffic? something else?

I'm curious about your opinion...

Cheers,

Fen^ATW
added on the 2011-05-03 10:25:11 by FeN FeN
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." -- George Orwell
added on the 2011-05-03 10:31:39 by revival revival
Make a demo with hurricanes, raised sea levels, poisoned environments, earthquakes, tsunamis, and cities of millions living in extreme poverty. I'm sure it's going to be a good demo.
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Hope.
added on the 2011-05-03 10:42:32 by nystep nystep
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added on the 2011-05-03 10:51:32 by krabob krabob
Maybe I should add:

in a positive way...

if I want it to be negative, I could take a LOT of pictures in Frankfurt, Germany ;-)
added on the 2011-05-03 10:57:23 by FeN FeN
Newlyborn children is pretty much the universal symbol for hope in the future, non?
added on the 2011-05-03 11:00:52 by lug00ber lug00ber
So in essence: A pregnant woman on top of a garbage-dump with a tsunami approaching in the distance ...
added on the 2011-05-03 11:18:05 by Punqtured Punqtured
The future: anything shiny, blue and vague.

Reasoning:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/10/the-future-seems-shiny.html

added on the 2011-05-03 12:22:00 by _-_-__ _-_-__
Nice one knos but still, I think we have some proof about the future.
It's either
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or

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And in between?

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that's a bit too far in the future, around 5000 years in
added on the 2011-05-03 20:44:33 by _-_-__ _-_-__
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added on the 2011-05-04 05:04:12 by Frost Frost
@Frost: looks like:
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That's quite close...
added on the 2011-05-04 08:12:08 by w00t! w00t!
nice pic frost...
but I mentioned "in a positive way" :-)
added on the 2011-05-04 09:24:50 by FeN FeN
FeN: Define "positive".
added on the 2011-05-04 09:34:56 by Frost Frost
Quote:
Define "positive"

Degrowth (in French: décroissance,[1] in Spanish: decrecimiento, in Italian: decrescita) is a political, economic, and social movement based on environmentalist, anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideas. Degrowth thinkers and activists advocate for the downscaling of production and consumption—the contraction of economies—as overconsumption lies at the root of long term environmental issues and social inequalities. Key to the concept of degrowth is that reducing consumption does not require individual martyring and a decrease in well-being. Rather, 'degrowthists' aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community. (wikip.)
added on the 2011-05-04 11:52:18 by krabob krabob
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added on the 2011-05-04 12:01:52 by Salinga Salinga
krabob: That wasn't a definition av "positive"... It was more a definition of "my idea of an utopia". :)
added on the 2011-05-04 13:43:33 by Frost Frost
positive like "a symbol for a world turning better, greener and nicer" but in a realistic way... thats why I search for photos not paintings...
added on the 2011-05-04 14:26:39 by FeN FeN
Like your avatar ;-)
added on the 2011-05-04 14:34:01 by w00t! w00t!
Considering resource depletion amongst a lot of other stuffs like the many ecologic problems due to our way of life, like holocene extinction , etc , Degrowth is truly the only "positive future" you can think about. Else is death.

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The ecologically conscious American economist Kenneth Boulding commented in the 1950s that “to believe in unlimited growth in a finite world one has to be either a fool or an economist”
added on the 2011-05-04 16:54:12 by krabob krabob
FeN: You want actual photos? Of the future? lol My time machine is defective.
added on the 2011-05-04 17:38:56 by yumeji yumeji

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