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Tags: atemporality, Bruce Sterling, collectivism, digital maoism, digital sadism, futurelessness, Jaron Lanier, Leonard Cohen, mass collaboration, Neil Postman, Singularity, Technology vs Culture, Technopoly, The Future, Vernor Vinge, Web 2.0, William Gibson, Zero History
November 16, 2010
In a decade or so from now, providing that we’ll still be around – and in recognizable form, things will look very different. There’s a good chance we’ll look back on the 2010′s as a time where not much made sense, and as a time when most of us lost some remaining sense of space and historical context. This is a time when we’re beset with global challenges and questions that we urgently need to find answers to – and also, a time when we’re more distracted, incoherent and unprepared than ever before.
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You may or may not have heard of ThePact. But you will. Eventually. In a nutshell, the project is all about producing, shooting and funding a crowdsourced horrorfilm. Given the changes that the movie industry is struggling with, these guys may have bet their money (or rather, are asking you to bet them) on the right horse.
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