alexi gunner
@idlegaze
cultural strategist
writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.
founder @ idle gaze consulting
cultural futurist @ RADAR
alexi gunner
idlegaze.substack.com
love how 2000s tech magazines marketed massive societal changes as simple consumer upgrades
'gadgets are hot!' really meant 'the entire internet is about to be in your pocket' https://t.co/BfZsD0PmPT
Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us. People played by the old rules, despite a growing recognition that those rules were
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The blob is so gay '90s, so pump-and-dump dot-com exuberance, so Apple iMac, so New Beetle, so Guggenheim Bilbao, so Oh chair, so over. Already the decade that begat the blob, with its IPOs and its "concept" stocks, its Aeron chairs and Brand Called You, seems worlds away from our moment, the anxious thoughts. These are the days of anthrax scares
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