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I think Silicon Valley breeds two particularly unhelpful brands of bad futurists. The 'nothing will ever change, it will just get more digital' type and the 'the future is a pretty place entirely uninformed by historical or present context' type.On twitter.com
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I think of these categories as the bad cyberpunks and bad hopepunks respectively. And they both create fascinatingly different but equally short-sighted products that come from their different myopic views.Permalink On twitter.com
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The bad cyberpunks see markets all around, decide this won't change and just get faster and more connected and give us Uber. The bad hopepunks think 'wouldn't it be nice to live stream my life' and give us Google Glass. Both come from their particular blindness to possibilities.Permalink On twitter.com
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The bad cyberpunk is unable to conceive of how we might build different ways to organize our society or culture and so only sees markets. At the same time the present is seen as a bedrock, and so they can't see how 'faster and more connected' might change how even markets work.Permalink On twitter.com
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The bad hopepunk is unable to see how the past informs the future and therefore can't see how people will react badly to... say... a ubiquitous surveillance device that they cannot opt-out of; or the idea that tech can amplify existing inequality, discrimination and hate.Permalink On twitter.com
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The particular irony is: both types of futurist are intensely interested in building the future, but their blindness to, for 1, the possibilities of societal change &, w/the other, the pitfalls of our past experience, means they end up actively sabotaging efforts to move forward.Permalink On twitter.com
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