1 Futurists in the 1950s promised automation (technology) would usher in a utopia (politics) of universal prosperity and leisure.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
2 And now, for 25 years futurists have promised AI (technology) will end history (politics) so we will arrive in paradise or apocalypse.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
3 Let's be clear: futurological promises of prosperity via automation mostly failed because of successful right-wing anti-labor politics.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
4 In the absence of organized labor the benefits of automation abetted plutocratic wealth concentration rather than general prosperity.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
5 The 20C futurological failures were not failures of prediction but of a deep misrecognition of political problems for instrumental ones.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
6 Now, let's focus our attention to contemporary politics and futurological discourse. Our 50s automation tech-talkers now blather about AI.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
7 There have never been nor are there now any intelligent artifacts in the world. Yet futurological attributions of such AI utterly abound.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
8 Futurological discourse about threats or promises of artificial intelligence (imagined and present) misrecognizes intelligence.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
9 The substantial content of such false attributions of intelligence to machines that are not intelligent are threefold:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
10 one -- the displacement of responsibility from owners, designers, users of dangerous artifacts onto the artifacts themselves;
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
11 two -- a false provocation of sympathy for useless, wasteful, dangerous artifacts facilitating fraud, crime & war-crimes; and
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
12 three -- a denigration of actual intelligence in humans and other living persons undermining recognition of their dignity and rights.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
13 Again let's be clear: the substance of rights and of history is political -- and futurology fosters their misrecognition as instrumental.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
14 History is the struggle to solve shared problems; to allocate costs, risks and benefits of change; and testify to hope and suffering.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
15 Recognition of intelligence (its needs and the responsibilities it exacts) is an indispensable point of departure for any free politics.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
16 Futurological instrumentalizations of historical struggle, intelligence/consciousness are indeed profound attacks on free political life.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
17 It is no accident that corporate-military futurisms achieve prevalence as norms and forms of advertising suffuse of public discourse.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
18 Our tech talkers repackage stale crap as novelty, upward failure as innovation, deregulation as disruption, precarity as progress.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
19 This is a *reductio ad absurdum* of marketing deception and hyperbole. But at a deeper level they are dismantling free political life:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
20 substituting consumption for participation, precarious competitiveness for freedom, status-quo amplification for progress.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
21 Futurology's anti-politics serve reactionary politics. Futurism obliterates open futurity. Every futurism is a retro-futurism.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
22 The refusal of corporate-military futurism requires engagement in the politics it would denigrate, deny, and disavow:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
23 Intelligence imposes responsibilities. Progress requires collective struggles. Justice isn't shopping. Art isn't an amusement park.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
24 Education, agitation, organization, legislation can still distribute gains from automation and digitization for equity-in-diversity.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
25 Futurity is the openness in the present inhering in the ineradicable diversity of stakeholders sharing, making, contesting the world.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
26 "The Future" is a lie, a projection, a funhouse mirror, a con, an advertising pitch to foreclose threatening/promising open futurity.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
27 Futurological substitutions of futurity for "The Future" are continuous with substitutions of instrumental for political consciousness.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
28 Robots did not deliver us into utopia in the 1950s and AI will not deliver us into either singularity or robocalypse in "The Future."
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
29 It is crucial to grasp this isn't a matter of competing Future predictions, but refusing the futurological eclipse of political futurity.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
30 I invest my hopes for progress not in Future Technologies but in techniques of futurity: education, organization, legislation.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 24, 2016
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