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Coming Soon: “The Future”
This Fall, Lapham's Quarterly will open the seventh seal and stake our fate in prophecies, oracles, utopias, dystopias, new technologies, and new worlds with our latest issue, The Future, on newsstands September 15th.
Covering more centuries than ever before, from the Book of Genesis to London in the year 800,000, we have Mark Twain predicting fearful earthquakes, Seneca meditating on the shortness of life, Ada Lovelace considering a brilliant career in computing, Heinrich Heine investing in tulips, Snorri Sturluson invoking the gods, and George Orwell fearing someone might be watching.
The issue also includes a charts of history's cuddliest and creepiest robots, cities of the future, advertising that promises a lasting relationship with a product, and the thwarted career moves of successful dictators. Our essays include John Crowley on the disappearance of the future, Colin Dickey's assessment of the talents of Nostradamus, Jennifer Szalai on the history of futures markets, and Paul Collins on the problems with investing your money for over a thousand years.
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- Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? The Déjà Vu blog investigates... Fit for the Job — Chris Christie’s weight-loss surgery sparks presidential rumors; in 1905 William Howard Taft reduces the old-fashioned way. Trip of a Lifetime — A one-way trip to Mars generates thousands of willing participants; in 1609, the Virginia Company deems Jamestown is the place to be. Race to the Top — The World Trade Center prepares to assume the role of tallest building in NYC; in 1939, the Chrysler Building employs a complicated scheme to achieve the highest height.
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Decca Records famously snubbed the Beatles early in 1962, reportedly saying at the time that "guitar groups are on the way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business..." The boys hired the late Brian Epstein as manager who signed them with Parlophone Records. I'm also an aviation buff who read about those 'experts' in the early 1900s who said that "aircraft have no future in warfare", or something along those lines.
Posted by Michael on Wed 7 Sep 2011