Going to the future
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TL;DR
There seems to be such an institution in the making, combining the methods of an archaeology of the future with the more general ideas of a science of the artificial, an institution for reflecting on the authors' social possibility space as part of a more deliberate effort to design their future.
Abstract
Every society has its institutions for reflection. When societies go through major changes those institutions change too. Industrialization brought us science, replacing the religion of traditional societies. Moving into the information society, we may expect a new institution for reflection to replace science. And, looking around, there seems to be such an institution in the making, combining the methods of an archaeology of the future with the more general ideas of a science of the artificial, an institution for reflecting on our social possibility space as part of a more deliberate effort to design our future.