Confronting Impossible Futures

Given everything humanity has accomplished, all of it driven by leaps of the imagination, why is envisioning a safer, saner, happier, more peaceful path forward so consistently beyond our reach? Indeed, why does it seem increasingly beyond our reach?

“We think creatively (not predictively) about the future in order to decide what to do now in order to make possible different futures. There is no reason to be ‘future-oriented’ other than to try to change things, from now on . This means that you must be very careful when trying to ‘future’ to ensure that you are not unwittingly reproducing impl

the third inevitable – because we always screw things up, even though we try to hide it – is that errors and mistakes will be made. Then, when these are ironed out, because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, there is a very high likelihood – unless we change course – that the machines will not behave in our best interests.