Comments on: The Disappearing Future http://www.socializedpr.com/the-disappearing-future/ Thu, 17 May 2012 06:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sean Mullady http://www.socializedpr.com/the-disappearing-future/#comment-4145 Sean Mullady Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:15:31 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/?p=787#comment-4145 To go along with James Glass' comment, an man much wiser than me said, "Any technology sufficiently advanced will appear as magic." I'm seeing a new magic trick almost weekly. To go along with James Glass’ comment, an man much wiser than me said, “Any technology sufficiently advanced will appear as magic.”

I’m seeing a new magic trick almost weekly.

]]> By: Marc Nogle http://www.socializedpr.com/the-disappearing-future/#comment-4124 Marc Nogle Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:13:06 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/?p=787#comment-4124 I'd speculate, but then again, I watch THX 1138 frame by frame. Know what I'm sayin' ese? I’d speculate, but then again, I watch THX 1138 frame by frame. Know what I’m sayin’ ese?

]]> By: Martin Chorich http://www.socializedpr.com/the-disappearing-future/#comment-4115 Martin Chorich Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:46:46 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/?p=787#comment-4115 I was amazed yesterday to find my wife perusing local bulletin boards and Craigslist posts to help her mother find a cat to adopt even though said mother lives 6,000 miles away. And then they discussed the matter at almost no cost over Skype. This sounds quite prosaic today, but 15 short years ago? Rapid change is one thing, but the more interesting question is which technologies will prove utopian and which will become dystopian? Sand Hill Road will fund either kind, often in the absence of a convincing business model. I was amazed yesterday to find my wife perusing local bulletin boards and Craigslist posts to help her mother find a cat to adopt even though said mother lives 6,000 miles away. And then they discussed the matter at almost no cost over Skype. This sounds quite prosaic today, but 15 short years ago?

Rapid change is one thing, but the more interesting question is which technologies will prove utopian and which will become dystopian? Sand Hill Road will fund either kind, often in the absence of a convincing business model.

]]> By: John Glass http://www.socializedpr.com/the-disappearing-future/#comment-4114 John Glass Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/?p=787#comment-4114 One key characteristic of cyberpunk fiction, in my view, is that different levels and kinds of technology proliferate across different strata of the (usually fragmented) future society. Often the technology one group employs is a surprise to another, and I'm wondering if we are not going to reach that point soon. Not only will the cycle of technological progress continue to accelerate, the number of people producing new technology will multiply as the "flat" nature of the global economy becomes a tremendous incentive for local innovation. We already see an almost evolutionary process on the internet in which many, while searching for the next big idea, create memes which are lavished with attention only to be extinguished mere weeks later. One key characteristic of cyberpunk fiction, in my view, is that different levels and kinds of technology proliferate across different strata of the (usually fragmented) future society. Often the technology one group employs is a surprise to another, and I’m wondering if we are not going to reach that point soon. Not only will the cycle of technological progress continue to accelerate, the number of people producing new technology will multiply as the “flat” nature of the global economy becomes a tremendous incentive for local innovation. We already see an almost evolutionary process on the internet in which many, while searching for the next big idea, create memes which are lavished with attention only to be extinguished mere weeks later.

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