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Futurism at a low ebb

Traders signal offers in the S&P 500 stock index futures pit at the Chicago Board of Trade.

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Futurism has seen better times than the last 15 years, according to Lawrence R. Samuel, author of Future: A Recent History.

In part 1 of our interview, Samuel talks about how caution and timidity have infected futurists.