Optimists decide the future
by Christina Ducruet · updated 1mo ago
Optimists decide the future
It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing.
from Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
- Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up... See more
from John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 by Cindy Cohn
Christina Ducruet added 1mo ago
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