The future is alive and well

[Woebot]

has anyone noticed how active NASA's publicity department is these days? Not a week seems to go by where they don't flag up some new discovery about space, or planned mission, or the movements of something they've got up there

these people seem to be disseminating that info

http://www.planetary.org/

 

[Ness Rowlah]

"I want the future now, I want to see it on the screen" (Peter Hammill, 1978).

The Drone Racing League -
there's no way this could have happened (well maybe by US Mil?) a decade ago.

Looks like a live version of Wipeout (PS1 game, since seen elsewhere).

There was a 3-4 minute thing on BBC News last night, but does not seem
like the footage is available yet, but there's loads elsewhere including.

Bloomberg, with some of the day-glo glory seen in the BBC piece
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...one-racing-league-wants-to-be-the-next-nascar

Wired, last year

 

[version]

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Should have put on a concert for species with 360 vision but I guess that's for the birds.

 

[Clinamenic]

Should have put on a concert for species with 360 vision but I guess that's for the birds.

If they used it for colonoscopy footage, it would be like the Fantasstic Voyage.

 

[version]

It's bears versus robot wolves in ageing Japan

As bear attacks rise in Japan's sparsely populated villages, robot wolves have become a solution.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[version]

That quote of Mark's that opens the Hauntology article @Ribar posted doesn't feel right to me atm...

"The 21st Century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. It doesn't feel like the future. We remain trapped in the 20th century."​

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It's difficult to tell how much of one's worldview's shaped by current mood, circumstance and consumption, but I very much feel I'm living in the 21st century. The 20th feels a long way away, almost another world.

That's not to say I'm optimistic about the future, I just don't feel that sense of stagnation he described.

 

[william_kent]

That quote of Mark's that opens the Hauntology article @Ribar posted doesn't feel right to me atm...

"The 21st Century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. It doesn't feel like the future. We remain trapped in the 20th century."​

​

It's difficult to tell how much of one's worldview's shaped by current mood, circumstance and consumption, but I very much feel I'm living in the 21st century. The 20th feels a long way away, almost another world.

That's not to say I'm optimistic about the future, I just don't feel that sense of stagnation he described.

he probably watched "Tomorrows world" on BBC - if you had you would feel cheated as well

 

[version]

he probably watched "Tomorrows world" on BBC - if you had you would feel cheated as well

Graeber has a line about how he wondered what people back in the day would think of modern special effects in film, whether it would blow their minds, then suddenly thought they might not actually be impressed because they perhaps expected us to have the flying cars, etc. by now, not just be better at faking them.

 

[william_kent]

Graeber has a line about how he wondered what people from the 50s would think about modern special effects in film, whether it would blow their minds, then suddenly thinking they might not actually be impressed because they thought we'd have the stuff being depicted by now, flying cars etc.

I should be able to regrow my teeth and zap around with a jetpack on my back

Johnny Lydon: "Ever get the feeling like you've been cheated?"

 

[version]

How many claims of some system or historical moment or other being the 'End of History' have there been now? You'd have the thought the lesson would have been learned the first time.

 

[shakahislop]

That quote of Mark's that opens the Hauntology article @Ribar posted doesn't feel right to me atm...

"The 21st Century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. It doesn't feel like the future. We remain trapped in the 20th century."​

​

It's difficult to tell how much of one's worldview's shaped by current mood, circumstance and consumption, but I very much feel I'm living in the 21st century. The 20th feels a long way away, almost another world.

That's not to say I'm optimistic about the future, I just don't feel that sense of stagnation he described.

it stopped i think, the stagnation bit and it probably only lasted about five years before the future properly rushed in

 

[version]

it stopped i think, the stagnation bit and it probably only lasted about five years before the future properly rushed in

All seems a bit arbitrary, doesn't it?

 

[shakahislop]

All seems a bit arbitrary, doesn't it?

its a sense isn't it, an affect. in the end a lot of this stuff is that it's triangulating with other people. did you see that? it feels like that to me to.o i noticed this did you notice it.

 

[version]

its a sense isn't it, an affect. in the end a lot of this stuff is that it's triangulating with other people. did you see that? it feels like that to me to.o i noticed this did you notice it.

I remember Craner criticising Baudrillard's talk of events going on strike throughout the 90s then 9/11 happening and suddenly they were back to work because Jean had decided they were.

 

[version]

I did actually read that book fairly recently and it was a bit more nuanced than that, tbf. What he termed 'events' were occurrences capable of destabilising globalisation. He wasn't just saying nothing happened in the 90s or that there were literally no events. Mind you, by his own definition he was wrong as even 9/11 didn't really change things in that sense.