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PAST<\/em>: Hieroglyphics
PRESENT<\/em>: Emojis
FUTURE<\/em>: Complicated eye blinking<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Renaissance-court painters
PRESENT<\/em>: Plastic surgeons
FUTURE<\/em>: CRISPR<\/em><\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Yerosha, the monkey cosmonaut
PRESENT<\/em>: The Britney Spears conservatorship
FUTURE<\/em>: President Barron Trump<\/p>\n

Read more Refik Anadol, The Art World\u2019s Happy Warrior for A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Seeing Eye dogs
PRESENT<\/em>: Emotional-support animals
FUTURE<\/em>: CatGPT<\/p>\n

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PAST<\/em>: Religion\u2019s propensity for creating zealots
PRESENT<\/em>: Politics\u2019 ability to kill a buzz
FUTURE<\/em>: A.I.\u2019s tendency to give us twelve fingers<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Being on the cover of Time<\/em>
PRESENT<\/em>: Getting a million views on TikTok
FUTURE<\/em>: Launching a seamlessly integrated omni-channel experience across multiple consumer touchpoints<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Putting aluminum foil on your TV antenna to improve reception
PRESENT<\/em>: Buying office furniture built to two-thirds scale so you\u2019ll seem larger
FUTURE<\/em>: Wearing one high-heeled shoe to compensate for Earth\u2019s axial tilt<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Clara Bow
PRESENT<\/em>: Kim Kardashian
FUTURE<\/em>: Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet III<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Ventriloquism on the radio
PRESENT<\/em>: A government run by people who want to dismantle the government
FUTURE<\/em>: The parking lot at seed banks<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Crop rotation
PRESENT<\/em>: Botox
FUTURE<\/em>: Climate redesign<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Owning a rifle
PRESENT<\/em>: Implementing blockchain integration
FUTURE<\/em>: Changing your passwords hourly<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Staying for coffee after church
PRESENT<\/em>: Hitting Reply All
FUTURE<\/em>: Setting your space vehicle\u2019s G.P.S. to \u201croam\u201d<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: \u201cSelf-made\u201d
PRESENT<\/em>: \u201cAgentic\u201d
FUTURE<\/em>: (Offline)<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Replacing the corn cobs in your outhouse with toilet paper
PRESENT<\/em>: Geo-tracking your children
FUTURE<\/em>: 3-D printing a new pancreas at home<\/p>\n

Read more Everyone Wants to Touch the Blue Coating in the Reflecting Pool<\/a><\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Yoking your oxen
PRESENT<\/em>: Monetizing your hobby
FUTURE<\/em>: Mining the energy of our host star<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Bodysculpting
PRESENT<\/em>: Looksmaxxing
FUTURE<\/em>: Vibeplundering<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: The Hegelian dialectic
PRESENT<\/em>: Liposuction
FUTURE<\/em>: Self-repairing concrete<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Hangover naps
PRESENT<\/em>: Unplugging your computer and then plugging it back in
FUTURE<\/em>: Rent-a-Stem-Cell<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: The development of language
PRESENT<\/em>: The harnessing of electricity
FUTURE<\/em>: The ascendancy of smart toilets<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: The release of \u201cCabaret\u201d heightens the sibling rivalry between Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft
PRESENT<\/em>: Trump calls NATO<\/em> a \u201cpaper tiger\u201d
FUTURE<\/em>: The sun\u2019s luminosity disrupts the carbonate-silicate cycle<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Failing to acknowledge your boss\u2019s milestone birthday
PRESENT<\/em>: Forgetting to Venmo colleagues for your share of the karaoke party
FUTURE<\/em>: Leaving your pickaxe in the lithium mine<\/p>\n

Read more How Bad an Idea Was Brexit?<\/a><\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Superstitions
PRESENT<\/em>: Superbillionaires
FUTURE<\/em>: Superclusters<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Being
PRESENT<\/em>: Seeming
FUTURE<\/em>: Simulating<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: Free will
PRESENT<\/em>: Salad bars
FUTURE<\/em>: Personalized plotlines in movies<\/p>\n

PAST<\/em>: God
PRESENT<\/em>: Oprah
FUTURE<\/em>: A.I. predictive text\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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