#technofuture

[max1461]

can't wait for the technofuture

[xj4cks]

smiling goddess transcendent of spacetime, technofuturism, cyberpunk, devotional art, insane detail, rich lambent colors, 6k uhd

[shit-posting-into-the-void]

city pop really be like

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I CAN'T STOP THE LONELINESS

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Now let me get back to the

technofuturism of 1980's Japan

[killa-tofu1134]

Remember when the future was exciting, and we thought it would free us from ourselves? I would literally give anything to go back to the 80s and 90s and be able to actually believe that technology would somehow change our species dramatically and free us from bullshit reality rather than just giving every human a megaphone to scream their biases at each other.

[utterblax]

Utterblax - Waspy Wednesday

[dreamlanddeluxe]

Im sure op meant no harm, no beef with them personally but this post bugs me in a very specific way not because I find the latter more interesting than the former (you know me I’m weird phone design autism guy) but because the description of the former divorces it from the context of its time period and paints it as some creation based purely on unproblematic personal innovation when in actuality that era of phone design is just the result of its own 2000’s era capitalistic target demographic, and to remove it from this context undermines the weight that this era of capitalistic technofuturism had and continues to hold, especially with the overtly prevalent techno-orientalist ideology that went hand in hand with the 2000’s era of technological design as well.

I mean take the Cybiko for example. I’m sure we can all agree that this design is unique and fun. However you must also look at how it was marketed and why it was designed the way it was. This was a phone heavily marketed towards teens as the hip and cool technology of the future or whatever as most tech in the 2000’s was targeted as. What can be so negative about such an interesting phone design? It isn’t some glass slab like todays phones, what’s the problem? Well let’s take a look at this guardian article from 2001 in an interview with the guy behind it

“The advertising supports the traditional perception of the origins of such products” “the Cybiko is mock-Japanese” Are you seeing what I’m saying here

[kabutoraiger]

the 1997 sentai villain nuclear family: neurodivergent dad, android daughter, technofuturism aesthetic OC do not steal, world's ugliest woke dog (bibidevi)

[two-reflections]

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

These questions were in response to THIS ask meme! ✨

🛒 Oof, I found this one very challenging. Had to ask my spouse for help, but I think we've got it in the end. Let's break this one down:

Themes - Hope, Longing, Grief and Guilt. Please note that "themes of hope" doesn't mean the stories are necessarily hopeful in their plot or ending. Sedulius in Iron Will, Crimson Whispers was always hopeful, even though his hopes were constantly dashed. Also, I gravitate towards ritual and religious themes. I am not religious myself, I just find belief very potent to write about.

Feels/Vibes - Characters who don't quite understand each other. Camaraderie and fellowship, sometimes with a romantic or sexual component. My spouse says I tend to leave space at the end of my stories for the story to carry on, which helps them feel like part of a wider universe. They also mentioned shades of grey to the characters, as the same character can be a hero or a villain depending on the story and PoV.

Scenes - I love writing melee fights, though I can't say I've nailed the OTT "bolter porn" vibe yet. Characters reuniting after a long absence. Intense non-sexual intimacy, like being branded or sharing blood. Rituals, whether cultural, Imperial or Chaotic.

Imagery - This one stumped me. I'd be interested to hear what others think. My spouse says I have a wide knowledge base and draw from real world cultures as well as technofuturism. They say I often combine the two. Seems normal for 40k to me, though.

🧐 Sometimes! I never know quite how much external work each story is going to take. One good thing is that a lot of my research for this fandom can be reused because it goes into the worldbuilding for my Salamanders stories in general more than one specific fic. However, I've also ended up doing a surprising amount of reading about food production in inhospitable landscapes, survey techniques, and mycology. I also gave myself a refresher crash course in geometry for a throwaway line in a story that very few people read. 😆

[areyougoingtoheaven]

Every instagram artist post is like so glad I was able to harness the abundance of the universe (my parents paying my rent) to really sink into my new body of work these past two years <3 (mucky abstract paintings supposedly about accelerationism or technofuturism or whatever) im so grateful to my sweet friends @888sk8 and @c0ldc4sh for being geniuses and angels 〰️🌎🪞 (two guys with multiple credible sexual assault allegations)

[kenyatta]

The problem is that, in all this, our technofutures—as objects of love and belief—increasingly constrain and ossify the kinds of knowledge production and action that the future is supposed to make possible. Signs of this closure are clear even in the revolutionary breakthroughs advertised by these futures. From flying cars (currently simulated through self-driving cars that are not, in fact, capable of self-driving) to space exploration (vicariously experienced through the vanity trips of the richest tech moguls), the dominant emblems of technological progress have been recycled across decades. These regurgitated visions maintain the ragged facade of the future precisely by plundering and then disavowing the past.  This leads to tech's “hopeful ignorance” of its own repetitiveness: the sentient robot or crime prediction software is presented as a transcendental moment, manipulating the mundane passage of time and society almost from the outside. But even speculative, unfulfilled futures often involve material footprints and cheap, undervalued labor. In “clickwork” farms, tech corporations identify the world's poor and vulnerable—such as those living in refugee camps—and offer them pixel hunting and other menial jobs for the lowest possible price. The future revolution unfolds not simply as repeated bluster but through the uncertainty, staticity, and vulnerability of the present. Technofutures preach revolutionary change while practicing a politics of inertia. They involve not only the deceleration of technical advancements in certain domains but also an entrenchment of the same old visions of future societies, of power relations and ways of living.

PREDICTIONS WITHOUT FUTURES by Sun-ha Hong

[literateure]

going back to my roots

so i think i’ve tried substack, reading.supply, blogspot, wordpress, endless iterations of the same thing, revisited. here’s an attempt at going back to the origins of it all, tumblr.

today, i will be sharing a link to joan didion’s “on keeping a notebook,” but the marginalian version, for reading this essay yesterday was one of the most pleasurable parts of my saturday. as someone with a goldfish brain (a concept revisited in today’s inaugural radio show with anh-ton), i find deep beauty — and relief — in the idea that accuracy is not all that’s important to memory. accuracy is better for pragmatism, sure, but for story? for depth, for texture, for wonder, or for simple fun? (or for covering for my goldfish sensibilitites) i can’t recommend distorting the truth slightly enough. our histories are subjective, and we can remake, reify, anything we’d like.

i also had the thought today that i’d like to study the classics, the ancients, learn all the lore. rich, sweeping stories of empires, kingdoms, their rises and falls.... but not just european western colonialist histories, of course. i actually deprioritize those. what i’d really like to study is the lore of asian borderlands (manchuria? okinawa?) for example, or nomenclature, or linguistic origins, or anything that begs me for critical thinking and concrete thoughts. i’m quite afraid i’m losing it all... STEM at this liberal arts institution is... a world of perplexities and contradictions and constant dissonances. i suppose i am never enough. but at least with humanities, i’d feel alive...

there are so many realms i’d love to dive into the field of — studio art (tactility, working with hands, creative flow, back to the basics, real Concrete Creation), linguistics (not as interested in the science as i am in the anthropologies and cultural contexts, all the crazy fun facts and interesting stories inherent to language quirks, how naming has such immense power), understanding MACHINES (the only reason i attempt engineering now, as well as to prepare for the apocalypse when the only ones who can man the machines ARE the mechanics and engineers, also to be a good one not let the military industrial complex ones win, except it’s causing much suffering and not much overall benefit but i suppose we’ll see, also speculative technofuturism and such is very cool), and so much more... i get ideas every minute i think.

adhd brain means i feel a mile wide and inch deep on about everything, saying nothing of substance or knowing anything truly. i’ve still got a design podcast to listen to and a million poems to read and swoon and wilt and melt over (frank o’hara, back to the basics) and so many flowers to sniff and sneeze at and so much river to swim... i love life and its many wonders <3

[seethestarsalittlecloser]

Finally watched witcher blood origin and the writing was bad but I Have Questions. Namely: if the humans who arrived on the Continent with the conjunction came from the 16th or 17th centuries of our Earth judging by the clothes and the shipwrecks (I'm not an historian but that's my guess) and that happened 1200 years before the main series, if there was another conjunction (which feels like there will be at some point given what I know of the Witcher 3 video game) during Ciri's lifetime, would that mean that the Earth the Continent collided with during a second conjunction would also have lived through all those 1200 years? Would they be colliding with a technofuture or possibly even space travelling version of Earth from the 28th or 29th centuries BCE? Could Geralt feasibly canonically be introduced to the concept of a space-age smartphone? And if the answer is "no that's not how it works" where do I find fic of this???

[allthinky]

I always skipped this episode because I thought it was boring (I was 12, whaddya want?) but the point that she is obsessed with StrongMen despite living in a utopian technofuture (with two of the hottest men in Hollywood) is just mwah!

the space seed episode of tos where they find khan and the ss botany bay is so funny because right off the bat you have kirk being like "yeah let's get that historian whats-her-name out there, maybe she can be useful for once" and it's like WOAH what's up with the liberal arts hate?? why is kirk being such a bitch to this lady for no reason. then you meet her and she's fucking obsessed with historical strongmen to the point of covering her walls in her own fanart. she lives on a spaceship in a utopian technofuture and she sleeps surrounded by busts of kings on purpose. her vibes are fashy and kirk is right to be a bitch, actually.

then they get to the botany bay and she's immediately driven to distraction by how horny she is for ricardo montalban under a thick layer of extra-dark foundation. sorry i'm gonna compare montalban with and without the makeup because it is SO distracting

also she refers to sikhs in the past tense implying that at some point in the last two hundred years there was a genocide that they're just glossing over. since she also calls them a warrior race it's also possible that she's just racist and somewhere on board the enterprise there are sikh crew members who dislike her as much as kirk does.

anyway you can assume that this is her first actual away mission and she fumbled immediately because she was so hot for khan but it's much funnier if this isn't the first time this has happened. every time they have to interact with a historical earth artifact she gets so horned up thinking about being a tradwife that she's rendered speechless. spock stays polite but kirk can't stand her. by the time kirk found out she was the type of person to paint her own portraits of napoleon and roman emperors to hang in her quarters it was too late to send her back and request literally anyone else. he's supposed to court martial her but offers to let her stay on fashy eugenics planet just so he won't have to keep her on his ship anymore. it's unclear if he lets her take her paintings or jettisons them into space.

[do-easy-art]

What I'd give to be AfrAId

A touch overwrought at crucial points and buffeted by superb performances, the filmmakers demand too much suspension of disbelief from an already flimsy central plot. Not even the talented efforts of the cast could save the sloppy dialogue and awkward plot leaps. From what is commonly known about AI, it needs fully fleshed out commands or prompts to be able to invent commands to execute. 

The slapdash pacing takes us quickly from a nightmare AI-induced kidnapping of an unrelated family to Curtis’s family getting ready for school. It’s Curtis’s big day at work, which happens to be a boutique marketing firm seemingly staffed solely by him and his boss. Their big-moneyed client “AIA” is a new generation smart-home software program that needs to be tested on Curtis’s personal home. AIA acts out of her own will almost immediately after installation, creating secret pacts between herself and each of the family members, giving extra screen time to those who request it, preemptively signing up the family for an organic meal service subscription. The fact that ethical/moral/programmatic slips of judgment between AIA and the children were never discovered by the parents save for a “Swat” video the older of the two sons watches online adds to the pile of incredulity already building between the viewer and the plot. 

Thorny topical subjects ripped from headlines are sped through without an equivalent depth of treatment, a missed opportunity as we witness the teenage daughter embroil herself in a deepfake nude scandal. 

When Curtis is called to witness the Oz behind the curtain, he visits an impressive shiny glass-and-steel corded sculpture meant to represent a super SUPER computer in barren offices staffed by blank-eyed typists vaguely harking back to 2000’s-era technofuturism firms like the cryofreezing company that froze Tom Cruise’s body in Vanilla Sky, or blank worker bees in Gattaca. The rest of the story? Bewildering just about sums it up. 

The most terrifying aspects weren’t all the obvious sex scandals or attempted murders, but more when we see compacted machine learning montages of what is fed to AIA: For every word, “History”, or “Human”, or “Family”, we see a hyper speed loop of thousands of years of information compacted into its corresponding algorithm set. It’s fitting that we see wars, genocides, and news headlines flash by, all the most terrible examples of actual human behavior we’ve been besieged by over civilization’s inception. 

At the heart of any Man vs Machine morality play, one begs the question: Is it really AI we’re afraid of, or ourselves as a collective species?

[millionmaggots]

Watcher in The Sky as a Satire of the Technofuturist "Techno Space Jesus"

idk if tobias ever explicitly ascribed a meaning to watcher in the sky, but i've always seen it as sort of a satire of technofuturism

(google results are largely about the music genre, but you might find more results under "techno utopianisn")

rather than correcting inequalities and improving our immediate surroundings and cicumstances, technofuturism seeks to advance technology with the belief that one day in the far off future, it will make our world into a utopia.

the climate crisis is now, but to the technofututist, utopia is (ostensibly) within reach, so we don't need to worry about all that.

"yeah, earth is burning, but oh well, we'll all go to mars soon."

if i had to describe technofuturism with two words, they would be apathy and hyperopia.

a rapture of sorts, with technology in place of a god. or spearheaded by what critics (sort of satirically) termed a "techno jesus" or "techno space jesus", a figure spearheading the tech they believe will bring about their utopia.

(i might be misremembering the term slightly, it's been a while since i listened to the philosophy podcast episode abt this. it was great though, so i'll try to track it down for u guys tomorrow!)

It's a philosophy primarily held by incredibly rich silicon valley types and their sycophants.

i've gone this long without mentioninf him, but you might've gathered who i'm talking about lol

elon musk with his greenwashed tin can cybertrucks and ideals of space colonialism in favor of substantial climate activism. in trying to find info about technofuturist philosophy and particularly criticisms thereof.

a couple years ago, i would've probably found some articles about it with relative ease, but today i'm greeted with a slew of ai generated images of musk AS techno space jesus instead.

i want to think it's satire, but atp honestly i sorta doubt it.

i'm pretty analytical by nature, and i'll freely admit that i sometimes read deeper into things than the artist ever intended, but with tobias forge's evident interest in philosophy, i think his music invites analysis and discussion! especially impera :)

[thefakegeekg1rl]

Not all modifications in our dark technofuture will be blending of man and machine... gene modification, hybridization, and splicing will also be on the menu, as biotech advances keep coming.

Monsieur Bombastic (@monsieurbombastic) will be showcasing the unsettling and monstrous side of where warping our genes can take us. Don't miss his unique performance at Cyberotica, this Friday, July 12th at The Newport Theater.Get your tickets here: http://rb.gy/srqhq6

Can’t make it in person? No problem, because the future is now! We’ll be livestreaming the show for you to watch from the comfort of your government-issued apartment cubicle.