I appreciate you pushing back a bit. It's entirely possible that I have just fallen for a pet theory (or that I'm just getting old).
I think tech is still frequently used as a metaphor but I don't think that it's the image of the future in the same that it used to be. I mean that both in the sense of being the template (or paradigm) for p…
I appreciate you pushing back a bit. It's entirely possible that I have just fallen for a pet theory (or that I'm just getting old).
I think tech is still frequently used as a metaphor but I don't think that it's the image of the future in the same that it used to be. I mean that both in the sense of being the template (or paradigm) for progress (and in the late 90s through the mid-2010s it really was remarkable how quickly tech was changing and how frequently a new version really was an improvement over the old), and also in the sense of the quote, "the future is here it is just unevenly distributed."
That quote was always double-edged; a statement about inequality as much as progress. But I wonder, I know that people looking at silicon valley now see vast wealth and power, but do they think of it as a vision of the future?
Maybe . . . it's possible that I'm just projecting personal feelings and claiming that they're a cultural shift.
I appreciate you pushing back a bit. It's entirely possible that I have just fallen for a pet theory (or that I'm just getting old).
I think tech is still frequently used as a metaphor but I don't think that it's the image of the future in the same that it used to be. I mean that both in the sense of being the template (or paradigm) for progress (and in the late 90s through the mid-2010s it really was remarkable how quickly tech was changing and how frequently a new version really was an improvement over the old), and also in the sense of the quote, "the future is here it is just unevenly distributed."
That quote was always double-edged; a statement about inequality as much as progress. But I wonder, I know that people looking at silicon valley now see vast wealth and power, but do they think of it as a vision of the future?
Maybe . . . it's possible that I'm just projecting personal feelings and claiming that they're a cultural shift.