Retrofuturism

this leads to static incentives in a dynamic world, and a sense of mindless repetition.

If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.

These trends work together to keep us stuck in a permanent past because they make it harder to follow different trajectories, to see meaning, to grow as people. It’s a world that rewards predicting over inventing.

6. Because on the internet we live in the past, the future is not lived, it is programmed.

4. On the internet, fighting about what has happened is far easier than imagining what could happen.

7. On the internet, the past is a black hole sucking the future into itself.

If Luddism is simply the preference for agency over structures designed and coded by others, we’re going to need a bigger Ludd.

Structuration is a process of reciprocal interaction between human actors and the structural features of organisations, including organisations defined by technology. Human actions are both enabled and constrained by organisational structures; and those structures are the result of previous interactions.

3. On the internet, there is no present, only variously organized fragments of the past.