The future of the FL curriculum 5. The science fiction of FL teaching, part 2 To the bottom 1. That which is new today will be current tomorrow and outdated the day after tomorrow. Yesterday's news isn't any more today. Technological societies place a high value on the future.
Modernism eschews the past and diminishes the present by contextualizing it through extrapolation.
We see this paper as a contribution to the science of futurism. In this mode of analysis the units of description are to be defined in terms that are relevant to the participants whose interactional system forms the area or object of analysis. In the present context, we are focusing on the practices of future FL teachers, and therefore, the observational units in our analysis must be of the sort that would be of relevance to FL teachers practicing their art in the year 2,000. At the same time, because the audience of this paper is the current FL teacher, the units of our analysis must meet the additional requirement of being relevant to the future FL teacher's contemporary equivalent. This double requirement makes the task difficult to accomplish, yet that problem is unavoidable, given the topic of futurism itself.