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Tom Worster's avatar

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our host and my fellow commenters!

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John Ennis's avatar

“Of course,” he says, “we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which ‘now’ was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents’ have insufficient ‘now’ to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile.”

William Gibson: Pattern Recognition, Chapter 6, "The Match Factory"

I hope that everyone has a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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