Hacking Our Way Out of a Cyberpunk Future
Cyberpunks married a “hard sf” approach to technology (cyber) with a subcultural perspective (punk). Or as Sterling puts it: “An unholy alliance of the technical world and the world of organized dissent—the underground world of pop culture, visionary fluidity and street-level anarchy.” Or, more simply: high tech, low life.
Evan Puschak • Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
I submit that we have two big biases when we talk about technology. First, we think about it too much in terms of tools and recipes, when really we should think about it more in terms of process knowledge and technical experience. Second, most of us focus too much on the digital world and not enough on the industrial world. Our obsession with the d... See more
How Technology Grows (a Restatement of Definite Optimism)
Expanding the Futures Cone’s Concept of the Futures and the Pasts ⊗ Reading as Counter-Practice ⊗ A Bot that Watched 70,000 Hours of Minecraft Videos
Patrick Tanguaysentiers.media
