Remaining in the context of New York, it could look like this... The Right is fear-mongering about the dangers of everyday life in the city, while the Left doesn’t want to admit that the city has gotten progressively more dangerous. The Right doesn’t want to admit that police officers aren’t doing their job, and the left doesn’t want to admit we... See more

In America the best image wins. The President can’t be brat, and we love a survivor. It’s that simple sometimes.

I’d argue that the most creative minds of my generation were told to believe that creating yet another self-satisfying project was their key to building an independent practice

Finally, the new technologist does not limit themselves to the VC sprint arena of the past two decades. We believe that we will need to run for government offices with a platform around building products that work for constituents. We are comfortable and embrace roles in the public sector, financial industry, cultural industries, and more.

Most directly the movement of pop-up cities / city founding projects. These are as bald as it gets in terms of developing a new politic through the technologist lens.

We shifted from cyberpunk manifestos, to corporate networks and the commoditization of the user for economic extraction.

Technologist tended to view their world as somewhat insulated, despite having mass impact on culture and society at large. But over the past decade, at minimum, there’s been far more collisions of scenes. Both production oriented and deeply intellectual.

The second reason I gave extra focus to the left in this essay is because of the relationship with the artistic class, which was the more important group I wanted to focus on. As a New Yorker and creative, I’ve seen how these folks articulate how they judge impact on the world and what it means for their personal production. This has to change.... See more