There’s an online poll at MIT’s Magazine of Innovation, Technology Review, about one word futures. Here’s the link and some text:
In the 1967 movie ‘The Graduate,’ Dustin Hoffman’s character was told that future success was encapsulated in ‘one word: plastics.’ What’s the ‘one word’ you would whisper to today’s college graduates?
*nanotechnology
*genomics
*software
*broadband
*wireless
*hydrogen
*plastics
*robotics”
You may have to subscribe to view it (it’s really quite interesting and insightful stuff, from a tech-geek point-o-view). The point, however, of this post is to query…… We in the amorphous entity called “the church” like one-word-ish kinds of phrases too to describe our (perceived) future. Here are a few from the last few years:
*Catholic
*Reformed
*Seeker-sensitive
*Contemporary
*Postmodern
*GenX
*Simple
*House-Church
*Ecumenical
What would you add to this list? Is there even a point in having such simplified monikers?
