2012, the year the future got old
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Here's my latest #CSPresents talk for Creative Social, on atemporality, time loops and lack of future. Read it anytime you like, doesn't matter.TRANSCRIPT
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Skeuomorphism.
Creative Social 12/12
@sandoz
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Skeuomorphism.
Only joking.
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“if you want my future, forget my past.”
Melanie Chisholm
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“if you want my future, forget my past.”
Melanie Chisholm
We’re going to prove this theory wrong.
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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
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Atemporality.
So, this talk is actually about
2012, the year the future got old.
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by jasonepowell
looking into the past flickr group
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OLDThe Future is Old.
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8110this is how old it is!
Mobiles are Carbon Dating for Media.
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the future is so old we’re remaking it.
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I wore these trendy Vandals ever day... about 25 yrs ago
Re-wearing it.
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Chas & Dave. Timetravellers.
80s
70s
99
Re-using it.
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Jake Bugg (now), Ian Brown (80s), Keith Richards (60s)
Re-living it.
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Aubrey De Grey. A youngish man (49), trying to look like an old man, who looks young.
Reversing it.
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Young Me, Now Me. Ze Frank.
Re-shooting it.
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Re-jumping it.
1960 - - - - - - - - - - - > 2012
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atemporality is everywhere (somewhat appropriately)
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If you could have a talk with your younger self, what would you say?
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The original...
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it’s getting older, as it gets newer.
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So what?
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2013
Have a great 2013 or 2011, 1911 or whatever.
Thanks for listening. @sandoz
If you want to know what the Future looks like, look at the Past.