Presented at Gikii 14, London, September 2019

1. C Y B E R - D Y S T O P I A N I S M : T H E
I N T E R N E T S E E N T H R O U G H T H E L E N S
O F N I G H T M A R E S
A N D R E S G U A D A M U Z

2. N O A P O L O G I E S

3. C O R E C Y B E R -
U T O P I A N I S M
• The Internet is unique
• Technology can save the
world
• Internet empowers people
• Educated, informed,
democratic, egalitarian,
globalist societies will rise

4. R E M E M B E R
T H AT T I M E ?
“[2006 is] a story about
community and collaboration on
a scale never seen before. It’s
about the cosmic compendium of
knowledge Wikipedia and the
million-channel people’s network
YouTube and the online
metropolis MySpace. It’s about
the many wresting power from
the few and helping one another
for nothing and how that will not
only change the world, but also
change the way the world
changes.” Lev Grossman

5. P E A K C Y B E R -
U T O P I A
• “Without Twitter the
people of Iran would not
have felt empowered and
confident to stand up for
freedom and democracy”
Mark Pfeifle
• Arab spring
• Wikileaks
• Bitcoin

6. [ I N S E R T D O O M A N D G L O O M H E R E ]

7. C Y B E R -
D Y S T O P I A N I S M
• I would argue that
utopianism has been
replaced with purposeful
dystopianism that matches
our worse nightmares.
• Take almost everything we
are warned against in
dystopian SF, and there is a
matching example of how it
is being deployed in reality.

8. E C O - D Y S T O P I A S A N D T H E
WAT E R W O R L D
D Y S T O P I A 1

9. S T R E A M I N G O U R WAY T O A WAT E RY
G R AV E
C Y B E R - D Y S T O P I A 1

10. B L A C K M I R R O R W O R L D
D Y S T O P I A 2

11. ( W E A R E L I V I N G I N ) B L A C K M I R R O R
W O R L D
D Y S T O P I A 2

12. T E C H B R O C R A C Y
D Y S T O P I A 3

13. C H O O S E Y O U R T E C H B R O
D Y S T O P I A 3

14. ( O R S I S T E R )
D Y S T O P I A 3

15. W H O W O U L D E V E R FA L L F O R T H I S ?
I K N O W W H AT Y O U ’ R E T H I N K I N G …

16. R I S E O F T H E M A C H I N E S
D Y S T O P I A 4

17. D ATA S I L K W O R M S
D Y S T O P I A 4

18. I , F O R O N E , W E L C O M E O U R N E W
R O B O T I C O V E R L O R D S
O B L I G AT O RY R O K O ’ S B A S I L I S K S L I D E

19. S U R V E I L L A N C E
D Y S T O P I A 5

20. P R I VAT E
D Y S T O P I A 5

21. P U B L I C
D Y S T O P I A 5

22. C E N T R A L I T Y
D Y S T O P I A 6

23. A N D R E S , S T O P T RY I N G T O M A K E
C E N T R A L I T Y H A P P E N …
I K N O W W H AT Y O U ’ R E T H I N K I N G …

24. C E N T R A L I T Y

25. C O N C L U D I N G …

26. I C A N ’ T F I N I S H O N S U C H
A N E G AT I V E N O T E , S O …

27. A N E W H O P E

28. @ T E C H N O L L A M A
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