Futurist Distractions Twitterrant

Futurists talk about whether immortality would be boring or not to distract us from noticing we aren't going to become immortal. Futurists talk about whether uploads should have rights to distract us from noticing that uploading won't happen. Futurists talk about geo-engineering to distract us from real environmental politics. Futurists talk about enhancement medicine to distract us from the miracle drug of clean water for over-exploited regions of the world. Futurists talk about longevity medicine to distract us from the raising of the retirement age for majorities who aren't living longer. Futurists talk about nano-abundance and 3D-printer treasure piles to distract us from wealth concentration by elites. Futurists talk about digital democracy to distract us from surveillance, spam, financialization, crowdskimming, and zero comments.