Future Burnout: On the False Promises & Expectations of What Comes "Next"
by Matt Klein
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Future Burnout: On the False Promises & Expectations of What Comes "Next"
Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
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Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
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- Each technology not only unlocks a new state of expanded acceleration (that will be hardcoded into our lives as the new basis for our survival), but will also be used as the basis for new technologies to continue that process. The vast majority of people do not experience this technology as ‘liberating’ them. Rather, they experience it as something... See more
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
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Because we don’t think about valuing the work to be done in the future, only the work to be done now, we don’t give people space to explore what the future holds. Instead, we stress people out by giving them vague possibilities of an uncertain future with no time to explore them. By giving people the time, space, and freedom to explore what the future might hold, they will find abundant futures that are bright and exciting. Those are the futures they will work to actively create.
- One of the recurring similarities from anecdotes of burnout is a sense of temporal inertia – a kind of suspension of that time passes both achingly slow (similar to the temporal experience of the depressive where “a day feels like a year”) and freakily fast (the month/s of prescribed “sick leave” from work flies by). This is a sort of hauntology fo... See more
from Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images by Jess Henderson
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- Thinking about the fact that time is not infinite can help the present world achieve a level of self-actualization that society is starting to collectively grasp.
from 3_Trends_Vol.15: Sarah Unger: Memento Mori, Natural Awe + Four Day Week by ZINE
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The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
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- 1. On the internet, we are always living in the past.
The mechanics of this permanent state of retrofuturism are simple: if you have access to detailed data about the behaviour of people, editorial control over what information people receive (as social or search recommendation engines), and the means to nudge people using designed affordances then ... See morefrom Retrofuturism by stealing
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