I believed in the futurological better-than-real VR future and all I got was this lousy universe as simulation thesis.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological Drexlerian nanotechnology future and all I got was this lousy 3D-printed model of the Millennium Falcon.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological sooper-longevity SENS future and all I got was this lousy botox injection and some boner pills.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological energy-too-cheap-to-meter nuclear future and all I got were boondoggles and irradiated landscapes.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological digital democracy future and all I got was this lousy feudalism and ubiquitous surveillance.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological disruption innovation maker future and all I got was lousy standard Republican deregulatory privatization.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological artificial intelligence future and all I got were lousy algorithms used by thieves to commit secret frauds.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological crypto-anarchy future and all I got was unaccountable harassment, e-mail scams, and organized global crime.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological geo-engineering future and all I got were these lousy windmills&sunflowers ad spots at the end of the world.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I believed in the futurological enhancement future and all I got were invitations to lousy eugenics circle-jerks with white racist assholes.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
I suppose I should point out I never believed ANY of that idiotic reactionary futurological nonsense and said so, but here we are anyway...
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 29, 2016
2 comments:
What about asteroid mining? Any lousy future there?
Don't even get me started on the goddamn space elevator or seasteaders planning to "Go Galt" in the asteroid belt! That's the hilarious thing about the lousy list... I didn't even mention uploading or sexbots or cell-culture meat or animal "uplift" or bringing back neanderthals or traversible worm holes or terraforming escape hatches or driverless cars and on and on and on.
Futurology is an endlessly faceted infomercial network of con-artists who have managed to convince a terrified greedy insulated anti-intellectual mob of white supremacist patriarchal pricks that they are scientists, experts, and philosophers as they defraud the rubes and distract attention from the avoidable end of the world they are accelerating through consumption, pollution, division, and derangement.
It's all lousy futures all the way down. Only sustainability, equity, diversity, reconciliation, responsibility, and professionalism in the present can build next-presents that last and deserve to last.
In this last year the foolishness and horror of the primary and general election season, then a terrible health scare and an exacerbation of what has been the years-long humiliation of adjunctcy have finally brought me to the brink of exhaustion and despair...
Maybe a good election result unattended by ugly violence, ratification of a rumored contract after years of strikes and negotiations, and a recuperative break for the holidays during which some legal recreational weed will help me get some sleep for once will be enough to pull me out of this long dive...
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