Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
Perhaps that is the final limit of visionaries: they do not conjure the future but instead craft its museum, arranging their dreams as exhibits for an audience yet to exist. Each boulevard, policy, or technology is less a step forward than a carefully placed relic, not built to withstand the future, but to be observed by it.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
In this light, progress becomes a kind of nostalgia in disguise. What we call innovation is merely the preservation of ambitions already calcified, objects placed in glass cases before their use has even been tested. The future does not arrive to inhabit these creations; instead, it becomes a curator, interpreting them with a dispassion we can’t imagine. It does not inhabit our blueprints but catalogs them, as archaeologists would catalog a lost civilization.
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