A superb keynote from Charles Stross, opening this year’s ‘Chaos Communication Congress’.
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
Yet more hidden dangers in emerging technology in the hands of technocapitalism!
From the abstract …
“We’re living in yesterday’s future, and it’s nothing like the speculations of our authors and film/TV producers. As a working science fiction novelist, I take a professional interest in how we get predictions about the future wrong, and why, so that I can avoid repeating the same mistakes. Science fiction is written by people embedded within a society with expectations and political assumptions that bias us towards looking at the shiny surface of new technologies rather than asking how human beings will use them, and to taking narratives of progress at face value rather than asking what hidden agenda they serve.
In this talk, author Charles Stross will give a rambling, discursive, and angry tour of what went wrong with the 21st century, why we didn’t see it coming, where we can expect it to go next, and a few suggestions for what to do about it if we don’t like it.”
So are we going to do anything about this or not?
And, as always, who’s the ‘we’?
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