The population now lacks a reason to believe that ‘history’ is ‘progressing’ in any particular direction, so a mix-and-match, cut-up, splice-up techno-aesthetic makes sense. — Matrix Online. Which is pretty much up there with the Alan Moore quote from Steampunk Magazine. Quotes like this are exactly why I still want to have bruces mind babies. […]
Read more "Bruce Sterling – no more history, progress is a dead idea?"Coilhouse responds to Herr Ellis’s comments on the death of Alt Culture: Why Doesn’t Alt Culture Exist? …We live an era that promises us a free flow of information, an era that, if you look just a little deeper, constantly exposes the ways in which facts can be covered up, in which history can be […]
Read more "Why Doesn’t Alt Culture Exist?"from (NSFW) SuicideGirls The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis … One of the few people in music who seem to me to be really leaning into the future right now is Burial, the reclusive lofi dubstep wizard whose work conjures fantastic images of a drowned London and haunted electronics. He’s doing his bit to save […]
Read more "..The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis (SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2007).."from tyeebooks.ca William Gibson Hates Futurists The night they started to broadcast television in New York, New York ceased to be what it had been before. Because everyone stayed home to watch television. … Virtual reality was one of our most recent experiences of a future that didn’t happen. The one before that would have […]
Read more "..William Gibson Hates Futurists.."from GigaOM … Microsoft (Information Age) vs. Google (Connected Age) Microsoft (MSFT) exemplifies the Information Age. It uses step-by-step, top-down controlled project management methods to build monolithic intangible goods desktop and client/server software largely from scratch. It uses money as currency, monetizing knowledge products using licensing fees and strict control of software copying. […]
Read more "..From The Information Age To The Connected Age.."from Mundane-SF: “Take the Third Star on the Left and on til Morning!” by Geoff Ryman … Being a Mundane boils down to avoiding old tropes and sticking more closely to what science calls facts. We believe that for most of us, the future is here on Earth. … I dont believe in starships. At […]
Read more "selections from Geoff Ryman’s speech on Mundane SF"from Mundane-SF: “Take the Third Star on the Left and on til Morning!” by Geoff Ryman … Being a Mundane boils down to avoiding old tropes and sticking more closely to what science calls facts. We believe that for most of us, the future is here on Earth. … I dont believe in starships. At […]
Read more "selections from Geoff Ryman's speech on Mundane SF"Cory linked to Henry Jenkin’s articles on retro-futurism on one of the BoingBoing posts about (yes) steampunk. Here’s a (long) selection of quotes that I found interesting. ((Note: there’s a printer icon at the bottom of this, this post may be better read offline)) From “The Tomorrow That Never Was”: Retrofuturism in the Comics of […]
Read more "Henry Jenkins on retro-futurism"In his recent Long Now lecture Francis Fukuyama was asked about The Singularity during the Q’n’A. I found his response very interesting. In short, he said the rate of change from 1850 to 1900 was far higher than 1950 to 2000 and because of that he didn’t think we were heading towards any such event. […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 