1. | Feb 13, 2014

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2. | Dec 21, 2013

"There is no reason why Disney can't show a glinemag beacon of hope to the world. To show what the future could be, to provide inspiration and a vision for the achievable."The question is whose hope? In what ought we to have hope? Remember, the future is political and whosever decides those questions is making a political decision.In the Paleo-Future blog, the question of "whatever happened to the future" pops up periodically, and as I like to remind people, real futurism never went anywhere. What died was the naive optimism that technology would solve all our problems. All of Walt's talk of Our Friend The Atom is just plain quaint now, and we can chuckle a little warmly at a time when the atom would make this a paradise if it didn't destroy us first... In the wake of Vietnam and Iraq and race riots and Chicken Flu and global climate change, that kind of futurism is wistful and retro and while fun, it's not entirely helpful.Real futurism, nowadays, is less about progress through technology and more about the kind of social and ethical progress that would allow technology, for example, to not be a disaster. The kind of optimism we need is not jonesing for the latest gadget (which is the dreary weakness of Innoventions) but the active fight for health care, environmental protection, equalized global relationships, social justice and good old fashioned not killing one another. But then how do you translate that into a theme park? Especially a theme park that makes a notorious habit of avoiding issues of conflict and faults of consumer capitalism, which are the exact problems that need to be addressed? Nah... we'll just have a trade show with a "house of the future" that has more to do with flat-panel TVs than ecological sustainability. That kind of thing is, frankly, anti-future... as horribly anti-futurist as the worst acquiescence to a Mad Max post-apocalypse. Just having a Sci-Fi fantasyland would be way better than that.

3. | Dec 18, 2013

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