tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post3890690994540608850..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Richard Jones on "The Uses and Abuses of Speculative Futurism"Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-66604144397189909222007-10-31T20:11:00.000-07:002007-10-31T20:11:00.000-07:00Dale wrote (quoting Richard Jones):> [That] futuro...Dale wrote (quoting Richard Jones):<BR/><BR/>> [That] futurological discourse [is] generally. . .<BR/>> symptomatic rather than predictive. . . explains,<BR/>> when we make the mistake of taking it at "face value"<BR/>> as a straightforwardly predictive exercise,<BR/>> "precisely why futurism ages so badly, giving us the<BR/>> opportunity for all those cheap laughs about the non-arrival<BR/>> of flying cars and silvery jump-suits."<BR/><BR/>After the Singularity, everybody will look good in Spandex.<BR/><BR/>Ex-Extropian "Mark Plus" has an entertaining writing<BR/>style and a collection of articles around the subject of<BR/>"failed futures" on his "Yet Another Transhumanist Blog".<BR/>http://transsurvivalist.blogspot.com/search/label/failed%20futures<BR/><BR/>Here's one with an accompanying video:<BR/>http://transsurvivalist.blogspot.com/2007/05/yesterdays-internet.html<BR/><BR/>(I could almost swear that the actress in that clip is<BR/>none other than Marj Dusay, from everybody's favorite original<BR/>_Star Trek_ episode, "Spock's Brain". And the narrator<BR/>is Alexander Scourby.)<BR/><BR/>Luma: Do not take them, Kara. Do not take them to the Controller!<BR/><BR/>Kara: They will be prevented.jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com