The Future as a Design Problem. Steven Reeves, Murray Goulden, Robert Dingwall
Design Issues. Volume 32, Number 3 Summer 2016
This potential proves to be illusory, however. Human beings cannot satisfy the conditions necessary to have perfect know— ledge of the future.“ They depend instead on the socially shared stock of knowledge of what has happened in the expectation that what is to come will be consistent with this. This stock of knowl- edge is a knowledge of “typifications”9—generalized templates which in their totality form a sort of reference library against which experiences are categorized, and which in turn is modified by experience. What we seem to experience directly as the present moment is, in fact, emergent from the interactions between our immediate sensations and the typifications that make up our stock
of knowledge.
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