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The World of Philip K. Dick is Almost Here

May 5, 2015

The World of Philip K. Dick is Almost Here Holographic Computers and Self-Directing Bullets Philip K. Dick was long viewed as a mere genre hack, although his fans always knew better of course. He used the medium of science fiction originally because it was the only way for him to make money as an independent […]

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The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem

April 30, 2015

The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem The mythic role assigned to progress in today’s popular culture has any number of odd effects, but one of the strangest is the blindness to the downside that clamps down on the collective imagination of our time once people become convinced that something or other is the wave […]

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The Retro Future

April 16, 2015

The Retro Future Is it just me, or has the United States taken yet another great leap forward into the surreal over the last few days? Glancing through the news, I find another round of articles babbling about how fracking has guaranteed America a gaudy future as a petroleum and natural gas exporter. Somehow none […]

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Government: Looking Into the Future to Prevent it From Happening

April 16, 2015

Government: Looking Into the Future to Prevent it From Happening Fantastic Progress We ended last week wondering what had gone wrong: How come the 21st century has turned out to be such a dud? Where are the jaw-dropping new inventions? Where are the rising incomes? Where is the dynamic, sizzling economy we expected? Back in […]

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Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present

March 29, 2015

Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present In this selection from his new book, the poet and farmer Wendell Berry connects the dangers of the future to a failure to live fully in the here and now. I. [2013] So far as I am concerned, the future has no […]

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The View From Outside

March 19, 2015

The View From Outside Recently I’ve been reacquainting myself with the stories of Clark Ashton Smith. Though he’s largely forgotten today, Smith was one of the leading lights of Weird Tales magazine during its 1930s golden age, ranking with H.P Lovecraft and Robert Howard as a craftsman of fantasy fiction. Like Lovecraft, Howard, and most of the […]

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Reframing Progress | Post Growth Institute

December 10, 2014

Reframing Progress | Post Growth Institute. “…Progress is one of the most powerful notions in the modern world” writes John Dryzek inThe Politics of the Earth. I’m inclined to agree with him. Progress acts as a kind of meta-narrative, an incredibly potent and pervasive trope that is woven through stories ancient and contemporary, and forms […]

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The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

December 6, 2014

The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. I encounter many young adults who are discouraged by America’s failure to respond to big issues affecting the future of Planet Earth and human civilization. They do not see much opportunity to make major changes, especially […]

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What If We Put the Future First? | On the Commons

October 31, 2014

What If We Put the Future First? | On the Commons. What if we put the future first? What if we prioritized the well being of everyone’s kids and grandkids ahead of today’s myopic economic and political interests? What if we honored everyone’s right to sustainably use the commons? These are questions at the heart […]

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The Archdruid Report: A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy

October 22, 2014

The Archdruid Report: A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy. If you’ve ever wondered just how powerfully collective thinking grips most members of our species—including, by and large, those who most forcefully insist on the originality of their thinking—I have an experiment to recommend: go out in public and advocate an idea about the future […]

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