Negative Space: Future Snark
- Future Snark
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Why does the past get the future wrong? More specifically, why do expert predictions always seem to be “hand your lives over to technocrats or we’ll all die?”
- Our Cybernetic Future 1972: Man and Machine
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In 1972, John G. Kemeny envisioned a future where man and computer engaged in a two-way dialogue. It was a future where individual citizens and consumers were neither slaves nor resources to be mined.
- Our Cybernetic Future 1945: As We May Blog
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As we go back in time for insight into the future, actual hardware recedes and the relationship between man and hardware comes to the fore. In 1945, Vannevar Bush laid out a vision of the Internet and desktop computers filled with the knowledge of mankind. And he recognized that this would not merely change how quickly we think, but how we think.
- Our Cybernetic Future 1954: Entropy and Anti-Entropy
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In 1954, Norbert Wiener warned us about Twitter and other forms of social media, about the breakdown of the scientific method, and about the government funding capture of scientific progress.
- Our Cybernetic Future 2023: Entropy in Action
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Studying the past, we can improve the future. Studying the futurists of the past, we can learn the tools to improve the future.
