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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society & its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, & even imagine real grounds for hope.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
2.
“The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can’t stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
3.
“Fake news” often reads, or looks on video, like weaponized design fiction.
4.
Someone said we are always preparing for the apocalypse we want. [Black Mirror] is a perfect illustration of this.
5.
Lots of familiar themes in
this.
6.
We talk about possible, probable and preferable futures in futures research. But unless we include more peculiar futures, we won’t be of much help. (
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