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Article: How the future didn't happen. (futurism)(What Has Made the Year 2000 - Science, Technology, Communications)
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- November 1, 1996
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Speed and utopias - Vladimir Pankov on the brilliant novelties and blind alleys of the Futurists
They were scandalously well known. They wore white dresses, yellow jackets and hemp sacks with slits for their hands and heads, and sewed black squares on the cuffs of their sleeves. They prayed like members of some new sect, not to oak and beech trees but to factory chimneys. Curious crowds gathered to hear them predict the future of humanity.
Born at the turn of the century they called themselves people of the future - Futurists - and proclaimed the coming reconstruction of the world. At the time they were accused of being charlatans, although, ironically, ...