{"id":1427,"date":"2007-06-19T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2007-06-19T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:22:19","slug":"limits-and-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/limits-and-brilliance.html","title":{"rendered":"Limits and Brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006915.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6915_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We find ourselves, as I wrote a bit ago in an essay called The Empire of Crime, without a contemporary sense of our immediate surroundings or much of a model for a working future. This lends an air of surreality to our thinking. Like the hero of William Gibson&#8217;s story The Gernsback Continuum, we are shadowed by visions of a future not our own: Mercifully, the whole thing is starting to fade, to become an episode. When I do still catch the odd glimpse, it\u2019s peripheral; mere fragments of mad-doctor chrome, confining themselves to the corner of the eye. There was that flying-wing liner over San Francisco last week, but it was almost translucent. And the shark-fin roadsters have gotten scarcer, and freeways discreetly avoid unfolding themselves into the gleaming eighty-lane monsters I was forced to drive last month in my rented Toyota. And I know that none of it will follow me to New York; my vision is narrowing to a single wavelength of probability. I\u2019ve worked hard for that. Television helped a lot. Indeed, we&#8217;re irrationally hung up on the past&#8217;s visions of the future. Check out Gareth Branwyn&#8217;s photo tour of steampunk hobbyist artifacts: Retro-futurism is all&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006915.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>Alex Steffen<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=20&amp;search=Go\">Imagining the Future<\/a><\/i> at 11:03 AM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/126185847\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We find ourselves, as I wrote a bit ago in an essay called The Empire of Crime, without a contemporary sense of our immediate surroundings or much of a model for a working future. This lends an air of surreality to our thinking. Like the hero of William Gibson&#8217;s story The Gernsback Continuum, we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}