Optimism
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Optimism
"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future"
--@mattwridley nails it
Ben Reinhardttwitter.comWe should be optimistic not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
The most important technologies that no one is working on are optimism and beautiful visions of the future. A belief in technological progress must include giving people places and futures worth believing in. It doesn't come for free.
Simon Sarrisx.com
No proven resources or technologies can sustain economic growth. The status quo will plateau. To expect growth is to believe in future technologies. To expect very long-term growth is to believe in science fiction.
Jason Crawford • Why Pessimism Sounds Smart
Awash in a bleak mediascape, I had simply assumed that optimism had been long exiled to the realm of corny naivete, gone the way of “Live, Laugh, Loving” and #Girlbossing. So it came as a shock when my TikTok feed started filling up with posts about the “Indomitable Human Spirit.”
Dirt • Dirt: The indomitable human spirit
Metamodernism is thus also more optimistic than modernism as it strives to go beyond its shortcomings, and thus inherently more optimistic than postmodernism, which lacks faith in modernity and its metanarrative of progress.
Alex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
Optimism is a political disposition and a design sensibility.