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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.