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cyrus
@cyrus
While @july has never felt more optimistic about the future, I'm slowly veering in the opposite direction. A few people asked why, so I wrote this short essay. After years of working with century long time horizons, I'm noticing a shift in my optimism. I believe it partly stems from a paradox around unprecedented global connectivity alongside deepening fragmentation. It makes me wonder if our technological ingenuity can truly outpace our collective dysfunction when planetary challenges demand wisdom. https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering
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Stuart
@olystuart
I feel the same way but you've articulated it beautifully here. I tried for years to get people to understand by protesting and being so angry but it's just useless. I think it's more important to try and articulate a more utopian future and how we could get there, so I want to write scifi about that, but I've struggled to have time to really sort out my ideas in a way that would come across to people. I can envision a positive future for humanity but not through tech acceleration which just fuels fascism and fragmentation as you call it, but some kind of post apocalypse collaborative evolution of humanity once whatever we're doing now collapses. I'd love to see optimism through tech but due to human behavior, I don't see it.
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cyrus
@cyrus
i think sci-fi and speculative fiction is a great format. envisioning futures is everything as Ursula K. Le Guin taught me. i essentially do that but then transform fictions into research projects and try to actually develop technologies. there's some examples on my website cyrus.website deep-down i think i just want to be a science fiction writer but i'm too ambitious to leave ideas as words.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Would love to read some speculative scifi short stories about (perhaps unintuitive) positive outcome scenarios. :)
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