3. “if you want my future, forget my past.”
Melanie Chisholm
4. We’re going to prove this theory wrong.
“if you want my future, forget my past.”
Melanie Chisholm
5. To be progressive, to be futuristic... More scientific
knowledge, more tools, make more jobs, master nature, get
more power, cheaper power, struggle for a better life for your
children, health, prosperity, material security, shelter, bigger,
faster, stronger, knowing more.
Everyone knows that's progress. That's not what we're gonna
get. No money, scarcity, financial collapse, collapsed states,
general precarity, energy crisis, low intensity global warfare,
rapid advancing climate crisis.
That's the situation on the ground. People ask where did the
future go? The glamourous versions. We're deliberately
choosing to move away from that and into a non C20 space.
We're moving into a situation with GenX in power and a
depression. A depression where people are afraid of the sky.
That's what the next decade actually looks like, and, you’re
gonna live there.
Bruce Sterling
6. So, this talk is actually about
Atemporality.
2012, the year the future got old.