If you’re smart enough to be skeptical, you should be curious enough for this

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The Futurist lies at the wonderfully chaotic point in between those two extremes. It’s a free daily newsletter with content that’s substantive enough for you to learn new things, but digestible enough that you don’t need a PHD to decipher it.

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⏳ Who knows that time travel is (probably) possible, but wants to know how
🔮 Who’s not trying to be the smartest person in the room, just the one who definitely saw it coming

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