Curated. Kudos to this post for causing me new thoughts on a topic I’ve already thought so much about. I suspect a big disjoint between people devoting themselves to ensuring the far future is good and everyone else is that the two groups have very different aesthetic expectations of the future; possibly, as this post suggests, due to thinking about it in near/far-mode. It makes me think we need many more stories like Stuart Armstrong’s rich and vivid The Adventure. That, and better far future art with more color, e.g. solarpunk.
Curated. Kudos to this post for causing me new thoughts on a topic I’ve already thought so much about. I suspect a big disjoint between people devoting themselves to ensuring the far future is good and everyone else is that the two groups have very different aesthetic expectations of the future; possibly, as this post suggests, due to thinking about it in near/far-mode. It makes me think we need many more stories like Stuart Armstrong’s rich and vivid The Adventure. That, and better far future art with more color, e.g. solarpunk.
Thanks! And I agree, well said.