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The future is intan­gible. It fas­cin­ates us all. In this epis­ode of atNick­Hodge, I inter­view Mark Pesce.

If we could get someone to read us our future, with cer­tainty, we would cer­tainly leap at the chance. It impacts the low­est base needs of our Maslowian needs of secur­ity and safety. Know­ing the future provides a com­fort to our present.

Ulti­mately, the future may be the only thing we humans can­not touch, can­not see, can­not meas­ure; and for the masses, can­not dir­ectly effect.

The role of a futur­ist is a mod­ern day equi­val­ent of a celtic druid; an indian shaman. The gypsy for­tune teller. Someone who sees the present through dif­fer­ent glasses and extra­pol­ates a non-Wolframic line of poten­ti­al­ity. Some­where that is now known, in the present mind.

But by the sheer act of shin­ing a light in one dim corner of a future; the cock­roaches scuttle out; and there is a poten­tial that the futur­ist has Heisenberg’d that reality.

A futur­ist has a chal­len­ging act. In a small way a court’s jester: not to be the clown: but rather the only one freely per­mit­ted to speak their mind. Call the present for what it is — and to determ­ine the health of Schroedinger’s cat . In what dra­matic ways will the present change a poten­tial future.

Risk can be described as the myriad of things can hap­pen, which is more than was even­tu­ally does hap­pen. Know­ing the future reduces risk, or detail­ing a future helps tickle out the poten­tial futures. Good and bad.

Futur­ists, such as Mark, have this respons­ib­il­ity to shake up the people and power in the present. Ensure that a neg­at­ive future is aver­ted as we jour­ney down the dirty path of now within the dark forest of reality.