{"id":20,"date":"2005-11-29T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T20:55:52","slug":"maclean%c2%b4s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/beauty-trend-forecasting\/maclean%c2%b4s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maclean&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE BALLROOM is rich with gilt and crystal and murals a la Versailles, avant le deluge. High above me, eager swains and tender maidens dally in the gardens of a doomed empire. I look up and wonder: will we do any better than they did at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agewave.com\/media_files\/maclean.html\">predicting the revolutions<\/a> that will shake our lives?<\/p>\n<p>On a steaming July weekend, I am at the annual conclave of the World Future Society, sitting in the audience in the magnificent Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Hilton. I am taking notes with ink and paper, the same technology that the royal secretary used when Marie Antoinette commanded, &#8220;Fifi, take a memo: &#8216;Let &#8217;em eat cake.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=92e2d25d-77cf-428e-b1bf-264ed66a7700\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirrormirrorinc.com%2Fblog%2Fbeauty-trend-forecasting%2Fmaclean%25c2%25b4s-2%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BALLROOM is rich with gilt and crystal and murals a la Versailles, avant le deluge. High above me, eager swains and tender maidens dally in the gardens of a doomed empire. I look up and wonder: will we do any better than they did at predicting the revolutions that will shake our lives? On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/beauty-trend-forecasting\/maclean%c2%b4s-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[218,217,213,216,214,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrormirrorinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}