added by Anna B · updated 13d ago
The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
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
alexi gunner and added
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were
... See morefrom Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
Horizons have shrunk. Novelists and filmmakers seem far more at home with dystopias than with the possibility that the world might get better. The institutions that once fuelled our shared imagination have, for different reasons, given up, leaving public intellectual culture recycling old ideas, while much of politics has drifted into nostalgia.
from Another World Is Possible by Geoff Mulgan
Alara Orhon Ozseker and added
- To move past the dark shadows of existential threats such as COVID-19, climate crises, and economic inequality, futurists must embrace an obligation to insist that things can get better.
from Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight by Medium
Keely Adler added
- It has become hard to be intentional about the future — to imagine and shape the worlds we want to live in — because the modern state rarely assumes any role in doing that or in encouraging us to do it either.
from Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism by Substack
Stuart Evans added
Old attitudes and ideas simply aren’t adequate to help us navigate what lies ahead. And pervasive gloom about the future risks being self-fulfilling.
from Another World Is Possible by Geoff Mulgan