Challenging Dystopianism: Futures Literacy & Radical Imagination...
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Argues that the dystopia/utopia binary is misleading and measurable: Operation Paperclip and V2 rockets cost about 20,000 lives, Silicon-era accelerationists translate dystopian fiction into VC roadmaps, and some futurists prioritize absurd metrics like 10^58 simulated lives. Calls out tools—AI, XR, metaverse, psychedelics, effective altruism, accelerationism—as amplifiers not solutions, and proposes concrete shifts: protopia as iterative practice, life‑centric design, and a humanitarian evolution that centers interdependence and biosphere regeneration.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Dystopian futures and injustice
- 4:24Utopian vs dystopian binary
- 10:06Technocratic futures dangers
- 18:47Predatory futurism examples
- 23:27Beyond nostalgia and solutionism
- 30:38Principles for livable futures
- 40:39Rejecting extractivism
- 46:01Hope and peace as processes
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