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Eclipsepunk - stress testing visions of better futures
Indigenous futurism and Afrofuturism, for example, raise the query, what would science, technology, and industry look like if it did not depend—as it does now—on environmental extraction and human subjugation? Yet others, such as Sinofuturism and Gulf Futurism, simply ask, how would we see the future if the core concepts of “progress” arose from so... See more
Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate
we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Why are these kinds of stories so hard to sustain, so often subsumed by negative and dystopian visions when the fact is, nobody can predict the future. Assuming dystopias has an element of self-fulfilling prophecy, but it’s also unlikely things will unfold exactly as anyone predicts.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
“continue” in some deeply reformed way? Economist Peter Frase lays out four possible futures in his appropriately titled 2016 book Four Futures.