The anatomy of future thinking

Fun, tongue-in-cheek post in MetroActive regarding brain activity and how it relates to future thinking is worth reading. Columnist Annalee Newitz has a fun take on this fascinating brain activity discovery.

She seems to think the study pushes the limits of applicability for grant funding on such endeavors and has a roaring time poking fun at it. To extend the joke, she carries it into the realm of finding a science fiction part of the brain. It's a fun line of thought to follow this brain sector back 50,000 years to early Homo sapiens. Funny stuff Ms. Newitz...especially the sardonic push for more funding at the end.

Thanks for lightening up what we can sometimes take a bit too seriously, Annalee. We do get passionately sucked in since we futurists love imagining what will happen. Again, we need to look to the future but live in the now, don't we?