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Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-
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Forecasting.
Social prediction.
Popular culture.
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Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-
Forecasting.
Social prediction.
Popular culture.
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But what if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past / Chuck Klosterman.
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Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-
Blue Rider Press, 2016.
Call #:
303
.49
K66b
Subjects
Forecasting.
Social prediction.
Popular culture.
ISBN:
9780399184123 (hc.)
Alternate title:
What if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past
Thinking about the present as if it were the past
Description:
288 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Book cover shows title in inverted text.
Summary:
"Every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure - until, of course, they don't. The author visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or - weirder still - widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we "overrate" democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we've reached the end of knowledge? But What If We're Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers - George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others - interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. Chuck Klosterman is the author of seven nonfiction books (including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and I Wear the Black Hat) and two novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man)"--Provided by publisher.
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