Comment by yannyu
> So what do you do if you are charged with providing shareholders ever-increasing returns on their investments by selling goods and services?
> Growth must be maintained. Value must be created. The futurist never took into account that part.
The futurists did take this into account, they just weren't writing utopian fiction. Weyland Yutani, Tyrell Corp, and other Megacorps were the futurists warning us what could happen if we let profit and sharedholder value becomes the most important thing in society.
I guess the difference is that they weren't attempting to communicate both possibilities in the same example of what the future would be.