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What are we calling the grief we have for technology, and for the arts, and for knowledge? 'Climate grief' somehow captures quite a lot in one phrase, but 'techno grief' does not work.
I was thinking about how much I used to love tech, its promise, the creativity of online spaces, all that knowledge at my fingertips. That tree of knowledge strung with lights has been set alight. That whole garden of wisdom is being torn up and buried under toxic waste.
@artemis The "grief we have for technology, and for the arts, and for knowledge" can be described as the "postmodern condition."
@joannaholman @artemis @urlyman I'm calling myself a disillusioned futurist
@jmopp @joannaholman @artemis @urlyman If you call yourself a futurist you know that what you projected in the past was just one if the many futures. Other futures are more probable today. To look for the reasons of that development and understanding that will help you how to project another great future with what you have learned about technology throughout the years.
@droidboy @jmopp @joannaholman @artemis
The future is less tech. I saw it half a lifetime ago and then have spent that time resisting that sensibility. I’m finally maybe on the cusp of embracing it
@urlyman @jmopp @joannaholman @artemis when you say "is" you probably mean "I think is" or "should be?" :)
@droidboy @urlyman The future *is* less tech, anyway you cut it.
Either we purposefully scale back the degree to which wasteful and invasive tech pervades our society, or climate disasters and violent social upheaval will do it anyway.
We’re in the “firebombing the homes of tech executives” stage of the fall of techno-capitalism. I don’t think it’s wild to predict that “the future is less tech”.
@paddyduke @urlyman Yeah, but it needs to be done right 😄 Any prediction is worthless when it's stating the obvious and/or forgets to put a date on it.
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