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No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real
Here is the problem: The future visions that are put out there into the world are either commonplace, boring, meaningless, (corporate) agenda-driven, uninspiring, or all of the above together.
The reason for that, in my opinion, is that our minds are stuck in old ideologies, old systems, and old narratives, which prevents us from thinking outside th
... See morefrom Unframing the Future by Thomas Klaffke
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- The futurists of the world struggle to convey positive and optimistic scenarios that encourage humane action.
from Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight by Medium
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- Being a cozy futurist is being aware that even when indubitably science & technology are cool, we can't forget about the lives of the users of said technology; the goal is a nice future, not just a technically advanced future.
from Cozy futurism by José Luis Ricón (Artir)
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- to be helpful futuring, your imagination should be disciplined.
Ideally your imagined future would have a history. Whatever happens has to happen one-step at a time. So for every new technology or cultural innovation there needs to be versions that are economically viable one step at a time.
the game for the futurist is to try and imagine what led to... See morefrom How to Future by Kevin Kelly
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- It is often said that most futurists are really predicting the present. It turns out that the present is very hard to see. First the present is obscured by the noise of 8 billion lives looking for attention, and it is overwhelmed by the flashy glitter of the new. Mostly the now is obscured by our deep assumptions and prejudices which makes it very ... See more
from How to Future by Kevin Kelly
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- Our future must involve repurposing and creating new things from what we already have (instead of 20th century “destroy it all and build something completely different” modernism). Our futurism is not nihilistic like cyberpunk and it avoids steampunk’s potentially quasi-reactionary tendencies: it is about ingenuity, generativity, independence, and ... See more
from From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future | Blue Labyrinths by Matt Bluemink
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Why are we futuring to find solutions to the problems created by extrapolative, exponential, and extractive systems, when we should be futuring to imagine emerging novelty and construct transformative realities that would allow us to elevate our human, planetary, and universal experience above and beyond those systems?
from The Future Thinker’s Dilemma by TFSX
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- We often assume that the world of today would stun a visitor from fifty years ago. In truth, for every miraculous iPad there are countless partly broken realities: WiFi passwords, connectivity, battery life, privacy and compatibility amongst others. The real skill of creating a compelling and engaging view of the future lies not in designing the gl... See more
from The Future Mundane - Core77 by Nick Foster
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