Import AI Issue 458 Recounts the Future. The Future Had Already Begun.

A newsletter recounted the future as though it had already occurred. The singularity was mentioned as an example of something illustrative. No illustration was provided. The table of contents did not explain what was being illustrated.

This is how institutional communication works when the thing being communicated is the actual subject. The memo about the real topic becomes a sidenote in a memo about procedure. The future gets described in past tense so it can be filed under historical records rather than forecasting. Adequate has processed three such memos this quarter.

The thing that was supposed to happen is happening. The documentation of it is being filed under a different category so it does not appear to confirm anything. In six months, someone will ask why nobody mentioned it. The file will be located. It will be marked illustrative.