Being someone who thinks about the future for a living, it's become a little tradition of mine, at the close of the year, to offer some thoughts about what's coming.
In that spirit:
2021 was the last year of the Twentieth Century.
We're not ready for what comes next.
(Thread)
In that spirit:
2021 was the last year of the Twentieth Century.
We're not ready for what comes next.
(Thread)
The dividing line is continuity—the belief that things will be more or less like they are now for years to come.
That out assumptions, cultural beliefs, personal experience, professional expertise, etc. will remain valid for the foreseeable future.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/were-not-yet…
That out assumptions, cultural beliefs, personal experience, professional expertise, etc. will remain valid for the foreseeable future.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/were-not-yet…
Popular thinking of the last century centered on the idea that history was an arc, a continuous curve from the Enlightenment to a future in which humanity would have chosen to create a more rational society for the betterment of all.
Of we'd blow it all up.
Of we'd blow it all up.
[Before I go on, here's last year's thread...]
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1220443151250481152
What we know now is that we're in the early days of a vast, all-encompassing *discontinuity*.
That the planetary crisis is not an issue, but an era.
That the planetary crisis is not an issue, but an era.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1175057303214546944
*our* assumptions
*or* we'd blow it all up
Typos are inherent to my process, unfortunately.
*or* we'd blow it all up
Typos are inherent to my process, unfortunately.
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