Category: Futures
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up for grabs
It’s yer man Cory Doctorow, taking the hopepunk position on science fiction: If you need proof that science-fiction writers are trapped by our consensus on the future and struggle to steer it, consider this: It’s not that hard to imagine surviving a just climate transition. Our leaders are willing to accept the market orthodoxy that…
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fragile, non-fixed ways of thinking
A bunch of snips from an interview with Matt Ward [via Matt formerly-of-BERG Jones], until fairly recently Head of Design at Goldsmiths: Speculative Design can act as a mode of inquiry or it can be a form of strategic practice within industry. At its worst it’s an aesthetic, a step-by-step guide or corporate vapourware, at…
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resisting both purity and progress
Anne Galloway on more-than-human design: … I’m not a believer that technology under capitalism will be the planet’s salvation, and I tend to part ways with (commercial?) designers and technologists who aim to design more “precision” agriculture through “intelligent” machines, and I’m constantly watching for bad omens. The ethos of the More-Than-Human Lab draws on…
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the next underground
TFW Simon Reynolds appears to have been rifling thru your list of near-future short-story ideas: It seems unimaginable, but it’s possible that the next underground will exist entirely off-line.
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a cranky aspiration
Chairman Bruce on AI ethics at LARB: In the hermetic world of AI ethics, it’s a given that self-driven cars will kill fewer people than we humans do. Why believe that? There’s no evidence for it. It’s merely a cranky aspiration. Life is cheap on traffic-choked American roads — that social bargain is already a…