6-D lenses

One of the lessons of Joy’s article, then, is that the path to the futurecan look simple (and sometimes downright terrifying) if you look at itthrough what we call “6-D lenses.” We coined this phrase having sooften in our research hit up against upon such “de-” or “di-” words asdemassification, decentralization, disintermediation, despacialization,disaggregation and demarketization in the canon of futurology.If you take any one of these words in isolation, it’s easy to followtheir relentless logic to its evident conclusion.

A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists