Future Here Now: I don't know

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This week’s Future Here Now focuses on one of the more uncomfortable parts of life in the Fusion Era: Not knowing.

As in, not knowing…why that happened.  Who’s in charge.  What to do next.  What the right answer is.  

If, as we’ve discussed here, the emerging social/cultura/economic/technological era is being defined by new levels of interconnection, new types of interdependency, new ranges of options for everything from finding a mate to picking a pair of shoes, then that means that our ability to develop complete and utter confidence that we have made the right choice is about nil.  The possible permutations extend well beyond our ability to mentally categorize, sort and choose.  

I would posit that a lot of the insistence we see today from reactionary types who want a return to some kind of (usually imagined) simpler world – where men were men and women were women and you only had five options to pick from at the hamburger stand – are reactions to a world of increasing complexity and …