Post in my timeline about ‘living in the future’.
I know it was meant light-heartedly which is why I’m not replying to it.
But I’m rolling my eyes a bit because the context is not funny and imo the essence of our deep predicament is that we’re living in the recent past
…I’m inclined to say that ‘hard’ tech founded in industrialism is living in the Holocene, which we’ve trashed and are now grinding into dust. It’s essentially living in the recent past.
‘Soft’ tech that’s trying to construct new ways of relating, new institutions that could be fit for the #wtfCene, are living in the deeper past and might actually help us live in the future.
Here’s an example of the latter, with Claudia Chwalisz of Democracy Next to walk us through it
https://overcast.fm/+BL7yMPhwmY
David talks to Claudia Chwalisz, founder and CEO of Democracy Next, about how citizens’ assemblies could help fix what’s wrong with democracy. Where does the idea of a jury of citizens chosen at random to answer political questions come from? What are the kinds of contemporary questions it could help to settle? How does it work? And what would encourage politicians to listen to citizens’ assemblies rather than to their electorates? Out now on PPF+: The second half of David’s conversation with Hannah White in which they discuss how we could get better decision-making at the heart of government. Why do politicians find it so hard to address the biggest challenges that they face? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ today https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus The 2nd film in our autumn Films of Ideas season at the Regent Street cinema is coming up on Thursday 25th September: a screening of My Dinner with Andre, followed by a live recording of PPF with playwright and…
…Here (quoted) is a picture of just how seriously we have fked the Holocene. What follows is in the process of arriving. And flying in particular (the context of the post obliquely referred to at the top) and most industrialism generally probs don’t fit that future when it’s more obviously here.
So, you know, not the future :/
Jonathan Schofield