the abolition of sadness
I want to follow up on a recent post, which considered, among other things, the ways that our investment of energy,...
Tag: Futurisms
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Tav’s Mistake
Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves is a typical Neal Stephenson novel: expansive and nearly constantly geeking out over...
Pynchon and the “Californian Ideology”
In a recent post I wrote, The hidden relations between these two worlds — Sixties counterculture and today’s...
happy stories
I’ll pay $100 for the best 100-word description of a plausible technological future in 100 years that I would like to...
“if X were alive today . . . “
“If Gutenberg were alive today” . . . or how about this: “If Shakespeare were alive today” . . . It’s funny...
Future Fatigue
William Gibson: Alvin Toffler warned us about Future Shock, but is this Future Fatigue? For the past decade or so, the...
the desire of the Sybil
It’s generally understood that books are read differently in different generations: cultural changes bring themes and...