Every piece of speculation about the future I've ever encountered broadly pattern-matches into one of four genres: forecasting, prophecy, literary works of fiction, and rants. Age of Em doesn't autocomplete into any of these, and I think both my irritation and fascination with it come from the same source -- the audacity of creating an entirely new genre of futurism.
Here are rough properties of the existing four genres:
- Forescasting - narrow subject matter, falsifiable details that