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May 10, 2012 12:51 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gQo6sgriGw4/unevenly-distributed-futures-c.html
Unevenly-distributed futures considered harmful
Here's a typically chewy, dense, thought-provoking essay from Venkatesh Rao, ruminating on the nature of the future and futurism. Rao describes the future as arriving through a "manufactured normalcy field" that prevents us from perceiving it, and proceeds from there to indict futurism as focusing on the part of the future where it is not [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gQo6sgriGw4/unevenly-distributed-futures-c.html
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