The Polak Game: an exercise to help reveal your theories of the future
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3C52P)
Dutch sociologist and Holocaust survivor Frederik Lodewijk Polak's massive future studies text The Image of the Future makes a bold statement about optimism and pessimism, creating four categories of belief about the future, divided on two axes: things are improving/worsening; and people can/can't do something about the future. (more")