Futuring the present can not only be predictive/projective but productive
or at least a self-fulfilling prophecy!

I wonder - if a group of people had seen the US built around the automobile as something fantastically undesirable, could they have even slowed up what happened?

I suspect that the "law of reversed effort" would have applied, and they would find they were merely providing extra publicity for something completely inevitable.

I also wonder which is most effective in bringing about change:

1. Portrayal of a negative future, being what will happen if you don't do a defined something.

2. Portrayal of a positive future, being what will happen if you do do a defined something.

I know which one looks like it should be most effective, but is that actually borne out by reality?