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Predicting tomorrow confidently enough to be wrong in writing.

means An early 20th-century art and cultural movement that worshipped speed, machines, and the future while trying to junk the past entirely.

from From Latin futurus, 'about to be,' the future participle of esse, 'to be.' The movement took its name directly in 1909 when the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published a manifesto glorifying cars, factories, and violence as more beautiful than ancient art — literally calling for museums to be torched. 'Futurism' was his own coinage, a flag planted for art that faced forward and refused to look back.

origin
1909 Italian art movement obsessed with speed and machines
irony
glorified the future, mostly got embarrassingly dated fast
politics
many founders later cozied up to fascism
legacy
inspired sci-fi, design, and every bad TED talk since
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